IDIA announces its second I-NAT to be held this September

Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA) has come a long way, ever since 14 of its scholars made it to the top NLUs last year. IDIA has successfully helped the underprivileged and under-represented students gain access to premier Law Schools of the Nation last year, by its first I-NAT (IDIA National Aptitude Test). It is now all set to conduct the second I-NAT in 14 major cities across India..I-NAT aims to find potential candidates for the IDIA Scholarship and it tests the basic general knowledge, logic and English skills of the students through the test. It then provides free coaching for CLAT in association with IMS, a pioneer coaching institute for CLAT..Speaking to Bar & Bench, Bharat Itagi, INAT Coordinator said, “IDIA is already on its way to improve the world for the aspirants of law from the families that have low-income levels. Last year 14 of them got selected to various NLU’s. This year IDIA with its increasing popularity is expecting 1500 students to register themselves, out of which, I am pretty sure that a large number of students will be getting through CLAT successfully.”.With such widespread attention being gathered by IDIA, there seems to be a great future waiting for IDIA. All students whose combined income of parents is less than Rs. 40,000 a month are made eligible to apply for the IDIA scholarship, which provides for a complete fee waiver for the students in the NLUs..The second I-NAT is scheduled to be conducted on September 25, 2011 from 10 am to 11 pm in the following cities in India:.New Delhi.Kolkata.Bhopal.Lucknow.Bangalore.Patna.Mumbai.Chennai.Hyderabad.Ranchi.Guwahati.Gandhinagar.Jodhpur.Cochin.The registrations are scheduled to be closed on September 20, 2011. Interested candidates are requested to send in their registrations at idianat2011@gmail.com or call any of the three volunteers listed below:.Pranusha Kulkarni: +919164197317.Bharat Itagi: +919845442956.Anukanksha Kalkeri: +919845442924.The candidates are requested to send in scanned copy of their parents’ income certificate to the email ID provided, for confirmation of their registration..Further details on the Test could be accessed at IDIA Blog..I-NAT is being coordinated by an IDIA team headed by Bharat Itagi and its proactive volunteers like Pranusha Kulkarni, Anukansha Kalkeri, Sumithra Suresh and Srishti Goyal.