The Bar Council of India has felt urgent necessity to improve the standards of legal education. In this regard, the Council has taken several steps including revision of curriculum and decision to close down the evening Law Colleges which are not following the norms prescribed by it for imparting legal education.

    The Bar Council of India has also amended the rules concerning three year law course to provide that the Law Colleges which are exclusively running evening classes shall switch over to the day classes during the academic year 2000-2001, failing which they will not be entitled to approval for affiliation by the Council. In addition, the Bar Council of India has been visiting and inspecting various Law Colleges in the country and disapproving affiliation of those colleges which are not following the rules laid down by it asking the colleges to improve by giving them appropriate directions.

    Besides, the Law Commission of India is seized of the matter. It has circulated a Working Paper on review of the Advocates Act as a whole including legal education. The Law Commission’s report in this connection, is awaited.

    Meanwhile, Department-related, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs in its 72^nd Report on Demands for Grants (2001-2002) of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, has said that "in its considered opinion the problems faced in the area of legal education have to be looked at in depth. There is a need for the Government to do a great deal more for improving the quality of legal education. It is the appropriate time that the Government of India should constitute a Committee to go into the details of problems of decline in standards and values in legal education and the problems being faced by the legal profession."