Manikchand Pahade Law College

About Institution

Manikchand Pahade Law College, Aurangabad is the oldest law college in Marathwada region. On the eve of the states re-organization prominent Advocates and educationist of Aurangabad took the lead to establishing “Marathwada Legal & General Education Society”. Prominent amongst them were Mr. Govindbhai Shroff, Late H.G. Vaishnav, Adv. L. S. Kulkarni. The society was established with the mission to establish the law college in the region, as at that time the facility for higher education in general & legal education in particular was lacking. For taking legal education students had to run to places like Hyderabad, Nagpur, Pune and Mumbai etc. Next task for the society was to raise funds and to establish infrastructure for the college. This task was shared by the “Manikchand Pahade Smarak Samiti”. The college is posthumously named by Manikchand Pahade, the great freedom fighter who has contributed a lot in freedom movement and in “Hyderabad Mukti Sangram”. The College was established with the following goals. a. To make legal education socially relevant. b. To forge new tools and innovations so as to make, legal education more and more clinically oriented.c. To make constant efforts to alter pedagogy.d. To keep in pace with the reforms in legal education. At present M.P. Law college occupies important place in educational circle of Marathwada region and is affiliated to Dr. Babashaeb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad and Bar Council of India, New Delhi. At present college is running following courses: - i. LL.B. Three Years (After Graduation)ii. LL.B. Five Years (After 10+2) iii. . LL.M. Post-Graduation Course with Three Specializations :a. Constitutional Law.b. Criminal Law c. Business Law (we are starting from the current academic year) The college is B+ Accredited by NAAC in the year 2004. The College is situated in heart of the city and has campus of 11 acres, which consist of class rooms, administrative buildings, playground, auditorium and well equipped library and computer section Well qualified teachers and leading advocates as faculty taking interest in rendering their services and expertise to the students is the unique feature of this college. This is the only college in this region having 12 full time faculties with NET / SET qualifications. Two of them have completed Ph.D., one submitted and others are perusing the degree. Moving from theoretical education towards clinical education, college organizes National Level Moot court Competition since last 12 years. This is the only institution organizing National Level PowerPoint Competition on socio legal issues. Last year and this year college received good response for this competition and 15 participants in final round presented their techno legal skills on the contemporary socio legal issues chosen by them

Vision

Achieving excellence in Legal Education.

Mission

Marathwada Legal and General Education Society has looked at education from a broad and holistic perspective and accordingly Manikchand Pahade Law College was established in 1957 with the following mission.