National Law University in Prayagraj to be named after Dr Rajendra Prasad, says UP CM Yogi Adityanath

PRAYAG RAJ: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that the National Law University coming up in Prayagraj will be named after the country’s first President Dr Rajendra Prasad.
In his address at the foundation-laying of the NLU by President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday, CM Yogi recalled Dr Rajendra Prasad’s relationship with the city and said, “Dr Rajendra Prasad had a great relationship with Prayagraj and the National Law University at Prayagraj should be dedicated to him.”
Dr Rajendra Prasad had done his doctorate in Law from Allahabad University in 1937.
The CM lauded the setting up of NLU at Prayagraj saying the city is a centre of spiritualism, justice and education.
“It is heartening to note that the Chief Justice of India will be the ‘Visitor’ of the law university. The NLU at Prayagraj will emerge as a good centre of research,” the CM said.
“The High Court of Allahabad is the largest high court in Asia which is serving justice to 24 crore people of the state,” he added.
The previous state governments never even thought of fulfilling people’s demand for construction of parking in the High Court as well as Law University, he said.
“People of the state had to wait for so long to see the foundation stone of these projects being laid. Today, under the guidance of PM Narendra Modi, our government is making all efforts to bring happiness in the lives of the people and provide them justice,” added Yogi.
Referring to the importance of technology and digitization, the CM said, “Today’s era is the digital era. We all have realised its importance during the Covid-19 pandemic. The state government has sanctioned Rs 70 crore for digitization in subordinate courts, Rs 30 crore for purchase of computers for the High Court, Rs 20 crore for computers in subordinate courts and Rs 18 crore for buying laptops for the judicial officers.”
The state government had taken big initiatives for infrastructure development in Prayagraj at the time of Kumbh and received full cooperation from the court.
The new complex of Allahabad High Court will have a multi-level parking that can park over 4,000 vehicles and around 2,600 chambers for the lawyers besides a state-ofthe-art library.