Support the IDIA Scholar Fund
A seat at a National Law University costs up to ₹5 lakh a year. The students who earn one can rarely pay for it.
✓ 50% tax deductible u/s 80G
✓ FCRA registered
✓ Registered charitable trust since 2011
Founded by the late Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer, who believed that the legal profession would only be as just as the people allowed into it.
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1,000+
270
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85
1000+
Student volunteers
The bottleneck isn’t ability. It’s the price of the door.
India’s National Law Universities produce the lawyers who end up arguing in its highest courts. Almost none of their students come from the communities most likely to need one.
₹5L
What a single year at an NLU costs once tuition, hostel, books and internship travel are counted
₹4,000
The CLAT application fee alone. For a family living on daily wages, this is where the ambition usually stops — before a single class has been attended.
2 years
How long serious CLAT preparation takes. Coaching at that level is priced for cities and for parents who can pay upfront.
We don’t hand out a cheque and hope. We stay for a decade.
Four stages, run largely by 1000+ law-student volunteers who travel to the schools themselves.
Outreach
1
Fund by donating ₹1,000-5,000
Train
2
Fund by donating ₹10,000-20,000
Fund
3
Fund by donating ₹25,000-1,00,000
Mentor
4
Pick the piece of the journey you want to pay for.
₹1,000
A classroom hears about
law
₹3,000
One CLAT application
form
₹15,000
A year of preparation material *
₹50,000
A term at a National Law University *
₹2,50,000
A Scholar, for a whole year
Aarif hails from one of Kashmir’s worst militant-hit zones, Pattan, a small town in Baramullah district of Jammu and Kashmir. He lives …
National Law University, Odisha Abhijit is a resident of Baradola, a village in the Cooch Behar district of West Bengal. He lives …
Nat’nl Univ. of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi Abhinav hails from a small and beautiful village called Bakhtapur in Uttar Pradesh. …
Abhishek lives in Nangloi, New Delhi. He has always been extremely dedicated to his studies and views education as a means by …
Abhishek Kumar, a second-year BBA LLB student at Chanakya National Law University (CNLU), Patna, hails from Raypur Bandhawa, a small village in …
Institute of Law, Nirma University Adarsh Dubey hails from Paraspatti village of Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and has endured to forge his own …
Aditya Pratap Singh, a determined and ambitious young man from Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, embodies resilience and intellectual curiosity. Born to a farmer …
Aishwarik, a brilliant and determined student from South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, represents the transformative power of education, resilience, and family support. …
Photographs and details as published in IDIA’s own Scholar directory at idialaw.org/scholars. Confirm current consent for fundraising use before this page goes live, and swap in IDIA’s preferred portraits if it has them.
The proof is in who is now in the room.
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Donations to IDIA Charitable Trust qualify for a deduction of 50% of the donated amount under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act. If you donate ₹10,000, ₹5,000 comes off your taxable income
Since the 2021 rules, charities must report every donation to the Income Tax Department against the donor’s PAN. Without it we cannot file that statement, cannot issue your Form 10BE certificate, and you cannot claim the deduction.
An acknowledgement is emailed as soon as the payment settles. The Form 10BE certificate covering all your donations in a financial year is issued by 31 May of the following year, in line with the statutory deadline.
Yes. If you hold an Indian passport and are donating from an NRE/NRO account, you can use the domestic route and claim 80G against Indian taxable income if you have any.
If you are a foreign national or donating in foreign currency, the contribution must go through IDIA’s designated SBI FCRA account or via DanaMojo, as required by the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. Section 80G relief does not apply to foreign taxpayers.
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