CLAT - 2015 ; Meet Five IDIA Scholars who made history
9 years, 8 months ago

CLAT - 2015 ; Meet Five IDIA Scholars who made history

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The Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to legal education initiative continued its success this year as well, with five of their scholars making it to the leading law schools in India.Supporting IDIA’s efforts, the NLS administration has waived the tuition fees for two of our scholars who made it to NLS this year.Acknowledging their efforts,. The Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to legal education initiative continued its success this year as well, with five of their scholars making it to the leading law schools in India. Supporting IDIA’s efforts, the NLS administration has waived the tuition fees for two of our scholars who made it to NLS this year. This year as well, he’s willingly agreed to provide a fee waiver for Lakesh Meena, our differently abled scholar from a village in Rajasthan who made it to NUJS.” Despite these fee waivers, IDIA still needs to work up a decent sum to cover their stipendiary expenses: books, clothes, travels, food, internships etc.

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