As the new academic session in colleges of the city begins from Monday, the higher education department in the State has issued fiats to all the universities in the State asking them to constitute an anti-ragging committee with eight days of the commencement of the new academic session.
The Government move aims at to prevent incidents of ragging on the college campus. Besides constitution of anti-ragging committees, the college administration will also take several steps like pasting of pamphlets/posters against ragging on the college campus, pasting of names and phone number of the members of the anti-ragging committee among others.
Taking a serious note of the incidents of ragging in the academic institutions, the higher education department of the state government sometime back had issued notices to registrars of all the universities in the state asking them constitute anti-ragging committees in each government and private colleges affiliated with the universities concerned.
Taking a cognizance of the state government’s missive, the administration of Devi Ahilya University has directed all the government as well private colleges affiliated with the university to constitute anti-ragging committees in their colleges essentially within eight days of the commencement of new academic session.
After constitution of such committees, the names, addresses and phone number of the in-charge as well as members of the committees will be put on display on board in each college so as to enable students to approach the committee members in case they are subjected to any kind of ragging within the college campus.
RD Mushalgaonkar, registrar, Devi Ahilya University, said after getting notice from the higher education department, all the government and private colleges coming under the purview of the university have been categorically asked to constitute anti-ragging committee within eight days of the beginning of new academic session.