The co-chairman of the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry (BCTNP), Okay. Balu, has urged the Union authorities to amend the Advocates Act of 1961 through the upcoming winter session of Parliament, scheduled from December 1, and enhance the enrollment charges that might be collected by Bar Councils from legislation graduates.
In an similar letter addressed to Union Regulation Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal in addition to the Bar Council of India (BCI), Mr. Balu, additionally the chairman of BCTNP’s enrollment committee, stated, it was crucial to revise the present enrollment charges of ₹125 from Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidates and ₹750 from others.
He stated, the charges had been revised final in 1993 and stay unaltered for over three many years although the executive bills and regulatory duties of the State-level Bar Councils, earlier than accepting contemporary legislation graduates into its rolls, had elevated manifold, resulting in appreciable expenditure in the direction of these duties.
Stating that Bar Councils don’t obtain any monetary grant both from the Union or State governments, he stated, nonetheless, the statutory our bodies needed to incur heavy prices in the direction of employees salaries, upkeep of infrastructure, verification of prison antecedents of candidates, digital report maintaining, and so forth.
Part 24(1)(f) of the Advocates Act states that SC/ST candidates should pay an enrollment charge of ₹100 to the State Bar Councils and ₹25 to the BCI. Similalrly, all different candidates had been required to pay ₹600 to the State Bar Councils and ₹150 to the BCI. This quantity was too low, Mr. Balu complained.
He additionally identified that the Supreme Courtroom had in Gaurav Kumar versus Union of India (2024) ordered that Bar Councils shouldn’t accumulate any quantity past what had been prescribed beneath the 1961 Act. Due to this fact, there was a compelling necessity to instantly amend the laws, the letter said.
Revealed – November 17, 2025 05:07 pm IST