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CLAT 2017 To Be Notified Soon Applications To Commence From 1st Jan Chanakya National Law University Patna the organizing authority of CLAT 2017 is yet to release the official notification of the test. The Common Law Admission Test CLAT is conducted for admissions in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at participating National Law Universitys. With the latest inclusion of Maharashtra National Law University Nagpur there are total 18 National Law Universities in India while the admission test would be held for filling 2252 seats in UG and 604 seats in PG programs. CNLU Patna had announced the key dates of CLAT 2017 which mention that the notification will be published on December 25. Though the same was not followed owing to technical issues as the official website of CLAT www.clat.ac.in stands inactive till now. The CNLU has updated CLAT 2017 page at its official website www.cnlu.ac.in that says the CLAT website will be active shortly. The CLAT 2016 office was closed in July as per the schedule and CNLU was to take over the office for CLAT 2017. The aspirants are eagerly waiting to fetch the CLAT 2017 notification as the 3-month long application process shall commence from January 1. The entrance exam is scheduled to be held on May 14 2017 at over 175 venues across 66 cities. There have been some significant changes in the CLAT exam process as the CLAT core committee had taken the decision to introduce age restrictions in the exam. Dr. A Lakshminath Vice Chancellor of CNLU and Chairman of CLAT core committee presided over the meeting held in October after which the upper age limit was announced as 20 years for Bachelor’s course. Based on the performance in the test the candidates will be awarded All India Ranks and CLAT score will be accepted by various law schools apart from NLUs. There are 18 NLUs across the country : 1. National Law School of India University Bangalore NLSIU 2. National Academy of Legal Study and Research University of Law Hyderabad NALSAR 3. The National Law Institute University BhopalNLIU 4. The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Kolkata WBNUJS 5. National Law University Jodhpur NLUJ 6. Hidayatullah National Law University Raipur HNLU 7. Gujarat National Law University Gandhinagar GNLU 8. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University Lucknow RMLNLU 9. Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law Punjab RGNUL

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10. Chanakya National Law University Patna CNLU 11. The National University of Advanced Legal Studies Kochi NUALS 12. National Law University Odisha Cuttack NLUO 13. National University of Study and Research in Law Ranchi NUSRL 14. National Law University and Judicial Academy Assam NLUJAA 15. Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University Visakhapatnam DSNLU 16. Tamil Nadu National Law School Tiruchirappalli TNNLS 17. Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai MNLU 18. Maharashtra National Law University Nagpur MNLU