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Manipal University Implements Tough Anti-ragging Measures

  •   Wed, Jul 29 2009 08:00:00 AM

Udupi, Jul 29 (DHNS): Close on the heels of the Uttar Pradesh government completely banning ragging on the college campus, Manipal University has initiated tough measures to end the problem in the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) campus. 

MIT Director Brig Somanath Mishra said that the institute was firm on putting an end to the ragging menace and implementing measures suggested by the UGC, AICTE, Supreme Court and Raghavan Commission report.

Those found guilty of ragging will be fined a whopping Rs 2.5 lakh and could be expelled from the college. A complaint will also be lodged and the student will be handed over to the police.

Anti-ragging squads, comprising more than 100 faculty members, have been formed to keep a close watch on the activities on the campus. These squads will visit hostels, food courts and all the places on the campus. Hand books containing the details of ban on  ragging and the penalty imposed have been given to all the students, besides sensitising them on the issue.

"No compromise and short cuts. The student involved in the act will be severely punished," emphasised Brig Mishra. 
  

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  • jacintha, mangalore

    Wed, Jul 29 2009

    The onus of reporting is on the fresher. When institutes spend so much to upgrade the campuses, could you not spend some to install CCTV, microphones etc at certain places, specially in rooms and areas where students who are close to the warden / authorities move?

    Some students remain in the good books of the authority and indulge in ragging wholesale. Another line the mgmt accepts is "Some questions just to get familiar". When freshers report ragging at early stage, this is the line given back by authorities to freshers and their parents. One never knows when and how the line is crossed, how the fresher is humiliated, tortured.

    The experience with mgmt in the beginning itself is lukewarm, so no one wants to report anymore. A sample of ragging technique in our own engineering colleges in mangalore is this. "All the freshers are lined up, one senior slaps the first in line with all the might. The rest in line are supposed to pass on the slap with similar intensity, else the one doing it soft gets another slap". Such an activity doesn''t get over in few secs, yet there is no administration looking at this.

    One more: 4 seniors stand at four corners in an empty room. The fresher is kicked at the back at one corner, to a particular direction, the fresher has to run there, receive another kick and so on". These are samples of ''just getting familiar''. I have many more examples given to me by those who went through this, but for lack of space reporting just these. If administrations, specially those who are high-end colleges, be sure you have received students from ''elite'' and ''connected'' families. They fear no punishment, they know their connections and also know your vulnerability. If you are ready to ''walk the talk'' on ragging, please do things which yield results and we are spared from these pains.

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