About the Fellowship

The P.A Sangma Fellowship for Legal and Policy Research named after the former chief minister of Meghalaya and speaker of Lok Sabha, Shri. Purno A. Sangma, is a one of a kind fellowship which allows NLSIU graduates to undertake legal and policy research activities in the state of Meghalaya.

The Fellowship aims to provide great learning experience for the qualifying candidates as the transition from the classroom environment to the ground realities of law and policy in implementation, will provide invaluable knowledge to understand the challenges that a sixth Schedule State faces everyday and work on solutions toward the same. The experience of the insider view of governance will allow the fellows to understand the process of achieving social goals.

Likewise, the first cohort was selected from National Law School of India University, Bangalore and the fellowship commenced from 1 st July 2022. Orientation to the first cohort was conducted on 12th July 2022 in the presence of Hon’ble Chief Minister, Shri Conrad Sangma, Hon’ble Law Minister Shri James Sangma, Chief Secretary, R V Suchiang, and Secretary to Law, Shri C.V.D Diengdoh and NLSIU representative Prof Sony Pellissery.