On Monday, the Bar Council of India, the apex lawyers' body and legal education regulator in the country, said it will conduct the All India Bar Exam-XVI on March 21, 2021. It claimed that online registration will start on 26 December 2020 and that the last registration date would be 21 February 2021.

The All India Bar Examination (AIBE-XV) 2020 exam, was scheduled to take place on 16 August due to the increasing number of positive cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), has been previously postponed by the Bar Council of India. The online registrations for which the test is to take place on January 24, 2021 have been approved until December 19.

“The last date for payment of exam fee would be February 23, 2021 and February 26, 2021 will be the final date for completion of online forms. The admit cards shall be released online on March 6, 2021 and the exam will be held on March 21, 2021,” the BCI said in a release.

BCI also announced that over 1 lakh lawyers had registered for the AIBE 2020 review scheduled to take place on 24 January 2021. The examination is to be held on about 140 centers in 50 cities of the country, it said.

“There will be no change of date of All India Bar Exam-XV anymore,” a press release said. It added, “It is to be noted that the last date for online registration for All India Bar Exam-XV was December 19, 2020 for which the examination is to be held on January 24, 2021.”

AIBE is an examination conducted at the national level to practice law. It is a test that a lawyer has to enter through the rolls of the Bar Council within two years of his enrolment.