The Bahali Award is the only scholarship Ratio offers, and it goes to one student each year — the top-ranked performer of the CLAT UG Complete Programme who secures admission to NLSIU Bangalore. The award covers the full five-year BA LLB tuition, paid directly to the university by Iura.
There is no application form. There is no committee. The award is decided by the only metric that matters — finishing first in your batch and earning your seat at NLS.
Iura pays NLSIU Bangalore directly, against the official annual fee demand notice, for every year of the BA LLB programme. The recipient never sees an invoice for tuition.
Most CLAT scholarships are tiered, capped, and partial. They reward many students a little. The Bahali Award does the opposite: it concentrates the entire scholarship spend on one outcome — the student who proves, through twelve months of timed performance, that they can hold the highest standard in the batch and then earns the country’s most competitive law-school seat.
That is the standard the award protects. It is named after the Bahali family — the founders of Iura — and exists so that no top student of a Ratio batch ever weighs tuition cost against attending NLS.
"The scholarship does not follow a seat. It follows a standard."
Every Complete Programme student carries a composite performance score on their dashboard from the first week. The score updates after each test, so the batch ranking is never a surprise.
Average across all full-length CLAT mocks attempted during the programme cycle, weighted by date (more recent mocks count more).
Accuracy by section across mock tests, section tests, and previous-year papers — Legal Reasoning, English, Logical Reasoning, Quant, GK & Current Affairs.
Coverage and accuracy across the in-house section tests for each subject, measuring depth beyond the full mocks.
Live class attendance and structured engagement with the curriculum — drills, planner adherence, and review activity.
Final ranking is computed at the end of the programme cycle, two weeks after CLAT results. Tie-breakers (in the rare event of identical composite scores) apply in this order: higher CLAT raw score, higher Legal Reasoning accuracy across the cycle, then earliest mock test attempted in the programme.
These are the conditions that decide selection at the start, and renewal each year afterwards. They are written so that a student can read them once and know exactly where they stand.
The candidate must have been a full batch student of the Complete Programme for the relevant year. Trial users, partial enrolees, students on any other Ratio programme, and students who joined mid-cycle without prior approval are not in the Bahali pool.
The candidate must finish first on the composite performance score — full CLAT mock averages, section-wise accuracy, section-test consistency, and attendance-weighted participation, in the proportions set out above. Rankings are visible on the student dashboard throughout the programme; the final ranking is published two weeks after CLAT results.
The candidate must secure a confirmed seat in the five-year integrated BA LLB (Hons.) programme at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, in the same admissions cycle as their Ratio batch year. Admission must be through CLAT (or NLSIU’s notified equivalent for that cycle). Admission to any other NLU, any deemed university, or any other course at NLSIU does not qualify.
The recipient must remain enrolled as a registered full-time student at NLSIU Bangalore through every year for which the scholarship is claimed. Withdrawal, transfer, rustication, or extended discontinuation ends the award from that academic year onwards.
The recipient must end each academic year with a minimum 6.5 CGPA on NLSIU’s 10-point grading scale (or its notified equivalent). A year that falls below the threshold suspends the award for the next year. The award is reinstated automatically if the recipient meets the standard again in the following year.
The recipient cannot simultaneously hold any other full-tuition scholarship, full fee waiver, or equivalent benefit covering the same period — whether from a government scheme, trust, foundation, or private body. Partial scholarships, merit prizes, and stipends that do not cover tuition in full are permitted and do not affect this award.
Within 30 days of the start of each academic year at NLSIU, the recipient must submit (i) a registrar-issued proof of continued enrolment, (ii) the current year’s tuition fee demand notice from NLSIU, and (iii) a one-page declaration confirming that all conditions remain satisfied. Late submissions, without prior written approval from Iura, suspend the award for that year.
Iura pays the tuition fee directly to NLSIU Bangalore against the official fee demand notice. The recipient is not required (and not permitted) to receive the funds personally and remit them to the university.
The award covers the tuition fee component of the NLSIU fee demand notice. It does not cover hostel fees, mess charges, examination fees, library deposits, university development charges, or any other ancillary cost — those remain the recipient’s responsibility.
The Bahali Award is personal to the recipient. It cannot be transferred to another student, deferred to a later year, exchanged for a cash equivalent, or applied to any other programme or institution.
The award is structured around the NLS standard. If the rank-1 student does not secure or accept an NLSIU seat in the same cycle, the award lapses for that batch year and is not reassigned. The next year’s batch competes for a fresh award.
Iura reviews the structure of the award annually. Any change to the conditions, scope, or process applies prospectively from the batch year in which it is announced and does not affect a recipient who has already qualified under the prior terms.
The Bahali Award is a fully-funded merit scholarship from Ratio that covers the entire five-year BA LLB tuition at NLSIU Bangalore (National Law School of India University) for one student each year — the top-ranked performer of the Ratio CLAT UG Complete Programme who secures admission to NLS through CLAT.
Any full-batch student of the Ratio CLAT UG Complete Programme is automatically considered. Eligibility narrows to a single recipient: the student who finishes first on the batch performance metric and obtains a confirmed CLAT seat at NLSIU Bangalore in the same admissions cycle.
No. There is no separate scholarship application. Every Complete Programme student is in the running by virtue of their enrolment. Selection is automatic based on the batch performance metric and confirmed NLSIU admission.
Ratio publishes a composite performance score for every student in the Complete Programme. The score weighs full-length CLAT mock averages, section-wise accuracy, attendance-weighted participation, and section test consistency across the full programme cycle. The metric is visible to students throughout the year on their dashboard.
It covers tuition fees as billed by NLSIU Bangalore in the official annual fee demand notice, for each of the five years of the BA LLB programme. It does not cover hostel fees, mess charges, examination fees, library deposits, or other ancillary university charges.
Iura, Ratio’s parent organisation, pays the tuition fee directly to NLSIU Bangalore on the recipient’s behalf each academic year, against the university’s fee demand notice. No money is routed through the student.
The Bahali Award is specific to NLSIU Bangalore. Admission to any other NLU does not qualify, even if the student is the batch topper. The award is structured this way so the standard the scholarship recognises remains absolute.
If the rank-1 student declines or fails to confirm the NLSIU seat in the same admissions cycle, the award is not transferred to the next-ranked student. It lapses for that batch year. The award is offered each cycle to the topper who actually proceeds to NLS.
The recipient must maintain a minimum 6.5 CGPA on NLSIU’s 10-point grading scale (or its notified equivalent) at the end of each academic year. Falling below this threshold suspends the award for the following year, with reinstatement possible if the requirement is met again.
You cannot hold the Bahali Award alongside any other full-tuition scholarship, fee waiver, or equivalent benefit covering the same period. Partial scholarships, stipends, and merit prizes that do not cover tuition in full are permitted.
No. The Bahali Award is purely merit-based. Family income, financial need, and reservation category do not affect eligibility or selection.
The award is named after the Bahali family, founders of Iura. Its purpose is to ensure that the brightest student in each batch never has to weigh tuition cost against attending India’s top law school.
Enrolment in the CLAT UG Complete Programme is the only step required to be considered for the Bahali Award. Rank is determined by your performance across the full programme cycle.