Ranchi, May 6: Directing the state government to take a final call on starting a five-year integrated law college in the capital, the high court today instructed the advocate-general to resolve all hiccups in establishing it.

Hearing a petition filed by the Bar Association of the Jharkhand High Court seeking a directive to the state government to start the integrated college in the state capital, the court also asked the advocate-general, S.B. Gadodia, to file a counter-affidavit.

Gadodia said the government was processing the file pertaining to establishing the college and only a few bottlenecks were to be cleared.

The court, directing the advocate-general to ensure that all problems were solved, said it would take up the matter again on May 15.

The petitioner’s counsel argued that students of the state were compelled to leave their home in pursuit of quality education in absence of the college. The college would also develop better lawyers, the petitioner argued.

The state has five law colleges offering three-year curriculum at present. They are guided by Ranchi and Vinoba Bhave universities.

The five-year law course was first introduced in Bangalore and its tremendous success led to formation of other national colleges, which have become legal education hubs in the country. Earlier, the government, with the guidance of the high court, had signed a memorandum of understanding with the BIT, Mesra, for starting the new college. The technical institute had volunteered to give 39 acres of its land along with its infrastructure to start the college.