UGC mandates district-level panel to check ragging in higher educational institutes

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked states to found district-level panels aimed astatine curbing the menace of ragging successful Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) successful compliance with the directives issued by the Supreme Court successful a judgement successful 2009.

The higher acquisition regulator successful the state has notified the "Regulations connected Curbing the Menace of Ragging successful Higher Educational Institutions, 2009", underlining the criminality of ragging and mandating its prevention, prohibition, and elimination wrong HEIs.

These regulations are mandatory for each institutions, with strict monitoring mechanisms successful place. Failure to instrumentality these norms, including due disciplinary enactment against perpetrators, volition pb to punitive actions successful accordance with the UGC Regulations for Curbing the Menace of Ragging – 2009, the UGC stated successful its notification.

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The UGC asked the HEIs to measurement up the anti-ragging mechanics by mode of capable publicity done assorted mediums: the constitution of an anti-ragging committee and anti-ragging squad, mounting up of anti-ragging cells, installing CCTV cameras astatine captious points, anti-ragging workshops and seminars, updating each websites with nodal officers implicit details, alarm bells etc. 

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“Regular enactment and counseling with the students, recognition of trouble- triggers and notation of Anti-Ragging informing successful the institution's E-prospectus and E-information booklets/brochures indispensable beryllium ensured. Surprise inspection of hostels, students' accommodations, canteens, remainder cum recreational rooms, toilets, bus-stands indispensable beryllium carried retired & anti-ragging posters indispensable beryllium displayed astatine each salient places similar admittance centre, departments, library, canteen, hostel, communal facilities etc“ the UGC announcement read.

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Universities are besides requested to guarantee strict compliance with this advisory and to capable retired the compliance signifier connected www.antiragging.in.

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Published: 29 Apr 2024, 09:06 PM IST