Many students who will appear in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2021 have asked for a postponement of the exam. The exam is scheduled for June 13 and registrations for it will be closed tomorrow, May 15. Students have said the exam should be deferred until the COVID-19 situation improves. The Consortium of National Law Universities, which administers the entrance exam, has not made any announcement in this regard yet.
UPDATE: CLAT 2021 Postponed, Registration Deadline Extended: NLU Consortium
“Please postpone CLAT 2021, I am from Tripura and in this difficult situation I cannot travel to Kolkata to appear in the exam, please postpone the exam,” a student said on social media.
#clat please postpone clat 2021, I am from Tripura and in this difficult situation I cannot travel to Kolkata to appear in the exam, please postpone the exam
— Sarbani Sarma Roy (@sarma_sarbani) May 14, 2021
CLAT notification: pic.twitter.com/piZBqUHSnX
— एक परेशान वकील (@TroubledLawyer) May 13, 2021
“Many CLAT aspirants are requesting to postpone the upcoming CLAT exams as it's not safe to expose them in this Pandemic ,” a social media post reads.
Many CLAT aspirants are requesting to postpone the upcoming CLAT exams as it's not safe to expose them in this Pandemic
— Dr. (Prof.) Ashish Mahendra(Education Counsellor) (@DrAsh_Mahendra) May 13, 2021
Kindly Postpone .#PostponeClat2021@PMOIndia @DrRPNishank @rsprasad
Though the exam is not postponed, the NLU consortium had earlier said it is monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country and a final decision will be taken in the first week of May, 2021.
“All applicants of CLAT-2021 are hereby informed that the Consortium of National Law Universities is monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic situation and will take stock of the situation in the first week of May 2021 regarding the date of the test. Notification will be issued on the website of Consortium subsequently,” the NLU consortium had said.
“Why do we have to go through so much anxiety and uncertainty? Why are CLAT aspirants not getting clarity?” another student asked.
Why do we have to go through so much anxiety and uncertainty ? Why are clat aspirants not getting clarity ? Why do we have to keep writing to the Cnlu's requesting them to postpone clat ? Why us ? Why is there so much delay ? Why ? @VC_NALSAR @krishnaswamysud #postponeclat
— Kushi (@Kushi03299324) May 13, 2021
“...Most of the students appearing for exams haven't even got 1st dose of vaccine. So many states are in lockdown and there are strong chances this situation will last for a month at least and now a third wave of COVID is coming,” said a student with #clat2021 and #postpone_clat_2021.
4 lakhs cases per day, most of the students appearing for exams haven't got even got 1st dose of vaccine. So many states are in lockdown n there are strong chances this situation will last for a month atleast and now a third wave of covid is coming.#clat2021#postpone_clat_2021
— AlphaMoon (@AlphaMoon18) May 9, 2021
The consortium had earlier assured students that it will take “appropriate steps as time and situation demand” and will keep the applicants updated accordingly.
