CLAT 2021: Garima of Bhagalpur secures AIR-9

PATNA: Garima Banka of Bhagalpur secured the ninth rank in the 2021 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), the results of which were announced on Thursday.
Garima, who passed her Class XII exams from Joseph and Joseph School in Bhagalpur, scored 113.25 marks out of 150. She will study at National Law School of India University in Bengaluru.
Two other students from Bihar, Arunoday Rai and Aditya Singh, secured the 21st and 76th ranks respectively.Both of them are from Delhi Public School-Patna.
Altogether 3,713 candidates from Bihar took the 2021 CLAT which was conducted by Maharashtra National Law University on July 23. The Consortium of National Law Universities declared the results after the approval of its general body on Wednesday.
The undergraduate law programme being run by the Patna-based Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) has 132 seats, of which 59 are for candidates in the unreserved category. The seats are further divided on the basis of the reservation policy of the university and the Bihar government.
The dean of the social science faculty of CNLU, S P Singh, told this newspaper that the first allotment list would be published on Monday after which the process of registration for counselling would begin. “Altogether five such lists will be published till all the seats are filled on merit-cum-choice basis,” he said, adding that the candidates would have to block their seats immediately after counselling by making a payment of Rs 50,000.