Law School Money: Accounts of NUALS, Kochi Revealed

Matching its steps with the current trend of information revolution, Stripped Law brings to you Law School Money, an exclusive feature offering insight into the accounts of law schools. Confidentiality just got a new cheat code! In the first link of this feature, we bring to you NUALS accounts information. 

Three RTIs were filed by Stripped Law founder Raghul Sudheesh regarding the accounts of the funds/grants/aids received by the National University of Advanced Studies for the past nine years, the expenditure on the travels of the Vice Chancellor and the expenditure on the fifth convocation.

The institution claimed to have received a grand total of Rs. 8,20,00,000 from the government agencies including the Kerala Government and the University Grants Commission. The grants received from other private agencies totalled to Rs. 63,28,751. While the list of the private funds received seems to be self explanatory, the utilization details of the grants received from the government agencies has been provided. 

The major chunk of these grants (approximately 7 crores) seems to have been spent towards infrastructure development. The Rs. 1,70,000 grant from the Kerala Government has been solely directed towards the development of the library.  (See Tables 1-6)

In addition, information was also sought regarding the expenses incurred by the University for all the Trips and travel of Vice-Chancellor of NUALS for the past two years, i.e. 2010-2012. Details of the expenses incurred on the fifth annual convocation of NUALS this year were also sought. Refer to tables 7-8 for details that were received in reply for the same

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Table 1: The Grants Received from the Government Agencies

Period	Agency	Amount Received
2010-11	Government of Kerala: Plant Grant	1,00,00,000
2010-11	Government of Kerala: Plant Grant (Modernization of the Library received on 31/03/2011)	1,70,00,000
2011-12	Government of Kerala Plant Grant	3,00,00,000
2011-12	University Grants Commission	2,50,00,000

GRAND TOTAL

8,20,00,000

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Table 2: The Grants Received from the Government Agencies

Period	Agency	Amount Received
2006-07	Endowments- CK Sivasankara Panicker Endowment	1,00,000
2006-07	Legal Aid Program: Funds from NALSA	1,00,000
2007-08	Share of expenses received from Surana & Surana, Chennai for the conduct of National Trial Advocacy Competition	50,000
2007-08	Stetson Moot Court Competition- Financial Assistance for team members to participate in the finals	50,000
2007-08	Endowments- VR Krishna Iyer National Foundation for Law and Social Justice Endowment	1,00,000
2007-08	Legal Aid Program- Funds from KELSA	2,000
2008-09	Share of expenses received from Surana & Surana, Chennai for the conduct of National Trial Advocacy Competition	99,326
2009-10	Share of expenses received from Surana & Surana, Chennai for the conduct of National Trial Advocacy Competition	75,928
2009-10	Financial assistance from BPRD, Delhi for Police Training Programme	1,20,000
2010-11	Share of expenses received from Surana & Surana, Chennai for the conduct of National Trial Advocacy Competition	75,651
2010-11	Stetson Moot Court Competition- Contributions received from the Bar Council of Kerala to meet travel expenses of the team members	22,500
2010-11	Financial assistance received from Kerala State Planning Board for conducting seminar for Emigration Act (Balance Amount of Rs. 59,347 has been refunded after settling the expenditures)	1,00,000
2010-11	Financial assistance from BPRD, Delhi for Police Training Programme	45,702
2010-11	Endowments –NUALS – TR Raman Pillai Memorial Endowment	1,00,000
2011-12	Share of expenses received from Surana & Surana, Chennai for the conduct of National Trial Advocacy Competition	77,644
2011-12	Share of expenses received from Surana & Surana, Chennai for the conduct of Philip C Jessup Moot Court Competition	1,00,000
2011-12	Endowments – NUALS- MK Nambiar Endowment	50,00,000
2011-12	Grants under Erudite Scholar Scheme received from the Kerala State Higher Education Council	2,00,000
	GRAND TOTAL	63,28,751

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Table 3: Utilization- Plan Grant from Government of Kerala

Particulars	Amount
Campus Development	89,00,000
Riso Digital Copier	1,78,488
Audio Visual Equipments for Seminar Hall (Payment Made during the financial year 2011-12)	98,000
LCD & DLP Projectors	2,35,248
Desktop Computers	1,12,124
Books including Halsbury’s Laws of India (Complete Set)	3,21,520
Library furniture and accessories	1,56,894
GRAND TOTAL	1, 00,02,274

Table 4: Utilization: Plan Grant from the Government of Kerala

Particulars Received during  FY 2011-12	Amount Granted (in Rs.)	Amount Spent Under Planned Schemes (in Rs.)	Expenditure incurred in excess (in Rs.)
Buildings and Furniture	2,25,00,000	2,25,00,206	-206
Moot Court Hall	10,00,000	10,03,761	-3,761
Seminar Hall	25,00,000	25,01,037	-1,037
Centres	40,00,000	40,05,522	-5,522
GRAND TOTAL	3,00,00,000	3,00,10,526	-10,526

Table 5: Utilization: Plan Grant from the Government of Kerala for upgradation of Library

Particulars Received during the FY 2010-11 and Utilised during the FY 2011-12	Amount Granted (In Rs.)	Amount Spent (In Rs.)	Balance to be spent (In Rs.)
Library Buildings	1,35,00,000	1,35,00,000	0
Library Books, Journals and Racks	30,00,000	30,02,314	-2,314
Automation	5,00,000	5,02,392	-2,392
GRAND TOTAL	1,70,00,000	1,70,04,706	-4,706

Table 6: Utilization: Grant from the UGC

Particulars	Amount Granted	Amount Spent	Balance to be spent
Building	2,50,00,000	2,50,00,000	0

Table 7: Expenses of the Vice Chancellor of NUALS for his trips and travels

Period	Expenses for Travel including Air, Rail and Road	Expenses for Room Rent	Expenses for food and beverages	Expenses for Alcoholic Beverages	Expenses for diesel/ petrol for official vehicle
2010-2011	Taxi charges New Delhi on 21/02/ 11 Rs. 2,246.00/- Flight charges Rs. 17,795.00/-	Nil	Nil	Nil	Rs. 84,229.00/-
2011-2012	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Rs. 99,270/-

Table 8: Expenses of the fifth Convocation of NUALS in 2012

Particulars	Amount
Panthal  (Agency: M/s. Bharatha Trading Company, Paliimukku)	Rs. 60,000
Food Expenses	Rs. 18,909
Printing of Invitation Cards	Rs. 6,000
Incidental Expenses	Rs. 87,766
Grand Total	Rs. 1,72,675

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