The Punjab Government on Thursday issued instructions to all Government and private technical and educational institutes in the State to set up anti-ragging helplines within 15 days.
The instructions were issued by the State Technical Education and Industrial Training Minister Madan Mohan Mittal on Thursday to all government and private technical and education institutes including engineering colleges, polytechnics and it is.
As per the instructions, the institutes were asked to set up anti-ragging helplines within 15 days to ensure that students being admitted by them in fresh batches were not subjected to any harassment and ragging by the seniors.
Terming ragging as ‘peril to education system’, Mittal said that if any student found indulging in ragging, he or she would be immediately sacked from institute besides registration of criminal case against the guilty.
He also asked department’s Principal Secretary to establish helpline at headquarter where students may lodge their complaint if they were not satisfied with the redressal of their grievances at concerned institution level. He also asked department to depute senior officials to randomly check the status and disposal of complaints.
To make the parents partner in this drive, the Minister has also ordered educational institutions to take written undertaking from the students and their parents mentioning that they would not take part in any kind of ragging activity.
He said that parents should be made aware of the condition that involvement of their wards in any form of ragging would invite expulsion from the Institute as well as registration of criminal case.
Mittal has also asked the Punjab Technical University, other deemed universities, Technical Educational Institutions, Polytechnics and ITIs to follow the Supreme Court guidelines in this regard to safeguard the interests of freshers.