New Delhi, March 10 :     The Bar Council of India today ordered that all evening law colleges in the country should close down from the forthcoming academic session of 2000-2001. However, the order gave an option to the institutions to convert into 'full-time day colleges'. 'Evening law colleges cannot impart legal education as prescribed under the rules of the Bar Council of India in view of the recent revision of curriculum by the BCI,' the order said. The revised syllabus prescribes 21 compulsory subjects, three optionals and four papers in practical training, making a total of 28 subjects in the LL.B course. 'The evening colleges hardly function for two to two-and-a-half hours a day which is totally inadequate for legal education prescribed by the BCI under its rules,' the council said. The council is the apex body for maintaining standards of excellence in legal education and legal practice in the country. 'Evening colleges are mostly manned by part-time teachers who are practising lawyers. These colleges do not have sufficient qualified full-time teachers. Professional courses like LL.B cannot be imparted through part-time teachers alone,' it said. Evening courses are conducted in colleges teaching other disciplines, which does not allow for putting up adequate infrastructure. In Delhi, there are two evening centres compared with only one full-time day college at the Faculty of Law in Delhi University.