| |19 March 2020HIGHERReviewThe aim of legal education hovers around imparting a country's knowledge as a segment of the essential culture of a gentleman, nobleman and common man involved in a learned professionaid campaigns. In nearby villages of Santiniketan, BLC organizes camps and offers legal support to the villagers. The learned lawyers who are cordially invited by BLC from sub-divisional and district courts support the cause. In the campaigns, BLC students observe the guidance provided by practicing lawyers. This plays a vital role in shaping the career of budding law students.BLC has a beautiful Calcutta High Court like structure, with 10 classrooms, a library, lab faculty rooms, a semi-nar hall, a moot-court room, model classrooms, different playgrounds, a canteen and boys' and girls' hostel. The col-lege campus is spread over a large area. The hostel rooms which are non-suffocating are ideal to live with 24hours Wi-Fi connection and medical assistance available for the students. The practicing lawyers and guest lecturers can easily avail the college campus and conduct special class-es on Saturdays and Sundays. This approach undertaken by BLC aims to activate `Gurukul' concept and enhanc-es the knowledge appetite of the students. The teachers in the connection are the main strength of this procedure that becomes the real-mentors throughout the semesters. In a faculty-student ratio of 1:23, teachers' helps students at projects and court visits, whereby the teacher-student relationship is supplementary and complementary to each other.Guest lecturers from Visva Bharati University, Burdwan University and different National Law Universities take classes in every semester. "Koushik Bagchi, Assistant Pro-fessor, NUSRL (National University of Study and Research in Law) and Rostrum Legal.com, our knowledge partner in various national programs, have continuously been pro-moting the college in different ways since 2016. Before that from 2006 to 2015, the journey was preparatory and mod-erate. In 2016, the final year students, at the time of their practical training program in the Supreme Court of India, had occasion to meet Dyushant Dave and Anurag Pandey, the-then Honorable President and Joint Treasurer respec-tively of SCBA (Supreme Court Bar Association). It was a game-changing moment for BLC. After that, the First National Moot Court was held in 2017, which was finan-cially backed by Dave. And being an Alumnus of Burdwan University, Anurag Pandey regularly helps the college in various development issues," states Amitava Chowdhury.Every year the college organizes cultural fest and Saras-wati Puja that contributes to the students' cultural and overall development. Personality development is further an initiative implemented by BLC to make the students bold and brave at a professional level. At present, BLC is on the verge of starting B.B.A LL.B., B.Tech. LL.B. and LL.M. degree courses. LAWCOLLEGES - 2020HIGHER EDUCATIONReviewTOP 10
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