This followed a Bar Council recommendation for nine subjects, said a senior professor of the faculty. He added that the faculty was already facing de-recognition, and if this recommendation was not followed it would only compound its problems. The faculty is still to get permanent teachers for four posts which were still being managed by temporary lecturers.

``The decision to introduce nine subjects should have been implemented long ago,'' said Bar Association President Narendra Tiwari, amid allegations that this was the only law faculty in the state to have tarried over implementation of the recommendation. He said that the proposed move had come too late to benefit those students who had already appeared for their examinations in May.

``The students would face problems as their subjects did not include those recommended by the Council,'' said Tiwari. He pointed out that the other disadvantage that last year's students would face is that they would not be promoted if they failed a subject.

Students complain that they already face the disadvantage of being from a faculty facing de-recognition. ``If we are now considered unqualified despite having passed our exams, it will be really sad'' they say.

Former faculty dean J C Rathod said that the decision to allow two ATKT's and add new subjects would benefit students applying this year.