360-400 LLB seats likely to be increased in law from next academic year

Hyderabad: There is likely to be an increase of 360 to 400 seats in law colleges for the LLB courses and about 60 seats for LLM for the upcoming academic session.

Prof. G.B. Reddy, TS Lawcet and PGLCET convener, told Deccan Chronicle: “Two colleges are likely to come up in Hyderabad and the surrounding areas, both of which have applied for the five-year integrated course, with 120 seats each, that the Bar Council has sanctioned.”

Prof. Reddy said the state government will have to seek permission for these seats from the Bar Council.

He added that Vishwa Bharati College of Law is likely to add 180 seats in two separate streams of the three-year degree course. In one of the colleges under Satavahana University, there are likely to be 60 seats added to the law degree courses.

These will be in addition to the 3,909 seats in the three-year course in 21 law colleges and 1,340 seats in the five-year law course in 13 colleges that were available last year, said Prof. Reddy.

Earlier, the Lawcet and PGLCET results were announced on Friday by the TS Council for Higher Education where 76.87 per cent or 16,572 candidates qualified, out of the 21,559 who had appeared for the tests.

The first rank for the Lawcet three-year course was secured by Chundi Sneha Sree of Hyderabad, while Samudrala Srinivasa Krushna Panchajanya of Karimnagar secured the first rank in the five-year course with 98 marks in their respective entrance tests.

Tadigoppula Pravalika of Rajanna-Sircilla district bagged the first rank in PGLCET (LLM) with 89 marks.