In a move to check ragging, the Delhi University has decided to deploy women police officers in plain clothes outside colleges, and anti-ragging posters across campus, vigilance squad in every college and police pickets are among the measures to maintain discipline from the new academic session.
Over 72,800 candidates out of 80,164 have accepted the college and course allotted to them in Delhi University's first round of allocations. Saturday was the last date for acceptance of allocated seats for undergraduate courses in the first merit list. It was extended by a day on Friday.
Earlier, a meeting of the proctorial board of the University of Delhi was held on Friday to deliberate upon measures for facilitating the smooth induction of students during the opening of the new session. Officials from the Delhi Police and senior varsity officials were present during the meeting.
Several important decisions were taken in the meeting to ensure the maintenance of discipline and prevention of ragging in the varsity and college campuses, a senior university official said. "In this connection, the colleges and departments have been requested to strictly enforce the rules and regulations issued from time to time, especially the provisions of Ordinances XV-B, XV-C, and the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (14 of 2013)," DU Registrar Vikas Gupta said.
Gupta said that all students and hostel residents as well as their parents have been asked to give an undertaking regarding anti-ragging at the time of admission.
"The university will set up two Joint Control Rooms, one each in the North and South Campuses (North Campus Tel. No. 27667221 and South Campus Tel. No. 24119832), beginning from 2nd November, 2022 till 11th November, 2022," he said.
"The anti-ragging posters in English and Hindi have been installed at the strategic locations in North and South Campuses, University of Delhi," he added. Gupta said that the colleges, centres and hostels have been requested to restrict the entry of outsiders and to prominently display rules regarding the prohibition of ragging in their respective institutions.
During the meeting, the police officials were requested to highlight steps for receiving ragging complaints. The Delhi Police has assured that women police in plain clothes will be deployed in the university as well as outside the premises of each college.