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UGC RISES UP
AGAINST RAGGING |
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The University Grants Commission (UGC)
has decided to notify new guidelines to make it binding
on all higher educational institutions to prevent
ragging or face harsh action, including de-recognition.
Educational Institutions nationwide are expected to
welcome this move in the wake of widespread criminal
activities in the guise of ragging. Gone are the days
when ragging was plain fun, another time-pass to get to
know other freshers and seniors. Freshers in today’s
colleges get tortured, molested, raped and even murdered
by their seniors who turn truant.
The commission has decided to notify guidelines to
prevent ragging under the UGC Act, 1956, making it
mandatory for institutions to adopt them. “Its violation
will result in penal action against the institution
concerned,” said UGC secretary R.K. Chauhan.
The commission is considering new clauses to get itself
empowered to stop grants to those institutions, which
fail to prevent ragging, as suggested by the Supreme
Court on Monday.
In case of repeated cases of ragging, commission
officials, who did not wish to be named, said the
offending institution could be derecognised under the
UGC Act.
“We have formed a committee that will consider different
options for making the anti-ragging guidelines
effective. The new guidelines will be notified before
the next academic year,” Chauhan told Hindustan Times.
The UGC decision comes following the death of Aman
Kachuroo, a medical student, because of ragging in
Himachal Pradesh. During the past year, ragging cases
have been reported from various institutions, but no
police action has been initiated against the culprits.
“In Kolapur University, some senior students were
suspended, but no action was taken against the teachers
who helped them conduct ragging during teaching hours,”
said Sheila Parsa, who conducted an inquiry into the
ragging of 50 firstyear Masters of Computer Application
(MCA) students in the University.
After examining several cases, she felt that there was a
need to overhaul the system.
“Ragging is considered a tradition in many institutions.
This mindset needs to be changed,” she said, pointing
out that the UGC guidelines enforced in 1999 had failed
to change the institutions’ ways of handling ragging
cases.
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This page
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