Work on new campus for Theni law college begins

Work on new campus for Theni law college begins

The 14-acre facility will come up on an outlay of ₹89.01 cr.

04/06/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,THENI

Bhoomi puja being performed for construction of buildings at Theni Government Law College on Wednesday.

With a view to meeting the growing demand for law courses, the State government had proposed to open three more law colleges, said Law Minister C.Ve. Shanmugam here on Wednesday.

He was participating in a bhoomi puja ceremony for constructing new buildings for Theni Government Law College, in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam, Collector M. Pallavi Baldev, MP O.P. Raveendranath Kumar, MLAs Thalapathi and S.T.K. Jakkayan.

Mr. Shanmugam said the number of students appearing for the CLAT (common law admission test) was rising. In July 2019, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami announced in the Assembly that law colleges would be opened in Salem, Namakkal and Theni.

In last August, the first batch of students was admitted. With the opening of the Theni college, the State had 14 law colleges.

The Theni college offers three-year and five-year programmes with an intake of 80 each.

The college, which is functioning on a private school campus on the Dindigul-Kumuli highway, will move to the new campus on 14 acres with 26 classrooms, hostels for boys and girls, state-of-the-art auditorium with 400 seats, moot-court hall, conference hall, library, video conferencing and and Wi-Fi facilities on an estimate of ₹89.01 crore.

In his address, the Deputy CM exuded hope that the good educational infrastructure in the hinterland would attract more students from the rural areas.