The Punjab Cabinet, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister (CM) Amarinder Singh, approved the ‘Sri Guru Teg Bahadur State University of Law Bill – 2020’ for presentation in the forthcoming session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha.
The law university in the border district of Tarn Taran will be established to commemorate the 400th birth anniversary of the Ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Teg Bahadur.
The draft Bill, prepared by the Department of Higher Education (DHE), seeks “to establish and incorporate a state university for the development and advancement of legal education and for the purposes of imparting specialised and systematic instruction, training and research in the field of law and for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.”
The objective of the university shall be to evolve and impart comprehensive legal education at all levels, to organise advanced studies and promote research in all branches of law, to disseminate legal knowledge and legal processes and their role in national development.
The Congress government will table five ordinances in the forthcoming one-day session of the Vidhan Sabha to be held on August 28.
Other bills to be presented during the session include The Punjab Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Ordinance 2020, The Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, Punjab Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Counselling and Rehabilitation Centres Rules 2011, Industrial Disputes Act — Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act.
