The document reports on several incidents of ragging occurring at universities and colleges in India between August and September 2010. It describes cases where students were beaten, humiliated, or forced to do undesirable acts by senior students. In some incidents, students committed suicide allegedly due to extreme ragging. The document also provides background on ragging including its definition and causes. It advocates for strong anti-ragging guidelines and committees in educational institutions to curb this menace.

4. Latest reports of ragging in india
 Wednesday, 4 August 2010 CHANDIGARH:
Panic spread on Punjab University campus
after a fresher of department of chemical
engineering and technology alleged ragging.
Shocked authorities swung into action after the
student called his parents, saying "seniors took
his introduction and made him dance in
hostel". The student has submitted a written
complaint to the hostel warden.
 Following the incident, PU security guards were
alerted and asked to conduct regular rounds in
hostels

5.  2010-08-11:Two more students were arrested
Wednesday on charges of ragging their juniors
in a private professional university in Himachal
Pradesh's Solan district, police said.
 Four students of Manav Bharti University near
Kumarhatti - Hirdesh Sharma, Chetan, Parshant
Kashyap and Madan Lal - were booked
Tuesday for bullying and manhandling nearly 30
students of the university.
 ChetanChetan was arrested immediately after the
incident.
 University Director S.P. Bhardwaj said all the
accused have been suspended and barred from
appearing in any university exams.

6.  Ghaziabad: A 19-year-old first year student of an
engineering college near Ghaziabad allegedly
committed suicide by jumping off the roof of his
hostel building on 17 august 2010.
Abhishek SahaiAbhishek Sahai was taken to hospital where he
was in coma for a while before he died. The
incident happened on Sunday night.

7.  Abhishek's family alleges the he took the extreme step
after being ragged. His family members claim he sent his
friend a text message on Sunday night saying he was
being ragged and soon after that jumped off the hostel
roof.
"A friend of his had gone to meet him and he sent him a
text message saying, 'I can't come, I'm being ragged'I can't come, I'm being ragged.'
The message is still there on the cell phone and there's a
message on Face book too," said Abhishek's brother
Shrivanshu.

8.  Friday, 20 August 2010 , MOHALI: A student of
Rayat and Bahra Engineering College,
Mohali, has alleged that he was ragged and
mercilessly beaten up by his seniors when he
refused to smoke and dance in front of them.
 The victim, Sector 7 resident of Chandigarh,
stated that he was thrashed when he refused to
do the same. Gurinder was immediately taken to
civil hospital, Kharar,

9.  Thursday, 19 August 2010
 (CURE), a group of professionals campaigning
against ragging, last month stated that Bengal tops
the list along with Punjab in the number of ragging
deaths as both the states have reported four deaths
or suicides allegedly by ragging in the last academic
year. Apart from this, 13 complaints of ragging were
registered in Bengal during the same period.
 Saturday, 21 August 2010 , A state-run polytechnic
for boys here has suspended two students on
charges of ragging a junior, 'A first year student of the
electronics stream had told his friend studying in the
same polytechnic about the ragging incident. Following
this, an anonymous mail was sent to the anti-ragging cell
of the UGC,' an official of the polytechnic said.

10.  Saturday, 21 August 2010, PANAJI: Eight
senior students of the Goa Medical College
and Hospital (GMC) found themselves in the
police lock-up and their careers as doctors
threatened after they were caught in the act of
ragging on Wednesday night . The students
were later arrested on charges of forming an
unlawful assembly with a common objective
of "wrongfully restraining seven junior
students of the first year MBBS course in the
boys' hostel of GMC, Bambolim and using
criminal force and intentionally insulting
them".

11.  In Varanasi 20 aug 2010, principal of Uday Pratap
Autonomous College ordered for lodging of an FIR
under the Anti-Ragging Act in which six senior
students with a dozen unidentified associates
were accused of physically assaulting the
freshers from arts and science streams at the
hostel recently. The Shivpuri police, with whom the
case was lodged, arrested four of the six
accused. Institute management said proceedings
were underway to start the expulsion process of the
accused.

12. Ragging DeathsRagging Deaths
 Nagedra AV, 25, was found dead in Chandigarh's prestigious
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research on
19 April. The doctor had joined this post-graduate institution just
two months ago. The police said he jumped to death from the
hostel building, his father said he had been pushed. His father
said a day ago he had said he was finding it difficult to continue
there due to ragging.
 Sinmoi Debroy, 21, was found hanging from the ceiling fan,
dead, in his hostel room in Chennai on 4 April. It was a private
hostel shared by students of various colleges. Most of the 42
SMSes in the Assamese engineering student's mobile phone
were threats and abuses from seniors, who also demanded
money.

13.  Ajub Ajith, 19, hanged himself to death from thehanged himself to death from the
ceiling fanceiling fan in his house in Thiruvananathapuram
on 31 March. He was a student of at the
Sarabhai Institute of Science and Technology. He
had told his mother that he was being ragged badly,
but prevented her from complaining to the principal
as, he said, that would make matters worse for him.
 Satwinder Kumar, 28, ended his life on 3 March.
He was a student of the Advanced Training Institute,
Mumbai. In his suicide note he named seven
seniors who had ragged him so much that he left for
home for Kurukshetra rather than take mid-term
exams. Before he could reach home, he committed
suicide by throwing himself before a goods train
in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district.

14.  Premlatha, 22, committed suicide by consuming
sulphuric acid in the chemistry lab of the on 5
February. Her brother singled out one senior,
Yogesh, 22, a fourth year student, as the person
ragging her the most.
 Gurgaon, Mar 10 (PTI) A shocked family of the
teenaged medical student, who was ragged and
beaten to death allegedly by his seniors in
Himachal Pradesh, today said the boy was
subjected to immense violence and demanded
action against the medical college where he was
studying.
 on March 8, 2009 ,Aman Satya KachruAman Satya Kachru (19), a
first year student of Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical
College in Kangra, breathed his last on Sunday
night in a hospital after being beaten up allegedly
by four seniors.

15.  "He was slapped many times, His head was
shaved off. He was punched and kicked. He
was hit on head and chest. He was forced to
work on their project whole night," Indira,
Aman's aunt, alleged.
 Two of the four accused -- Ajay Verma and
Naveen Verma -- were arrested yesterday
while two others, Mukul Sharma and Abhinav
Verma are on the run.

16. Was Aman Kachroo the last one?

19. RAGGING – A MENACERAGGING – A MENACE

20. ‘Ragging’ means doing of any act which
causes or likely to cause any physical,
psychological or physiological harm of
apprehension or shame or embarrassment
to a student and includes
a) teasing or abusing of playing practical jokes
on or causing hurt to any student ;
b) asking any student to do any act or perform
anything, which he/she would not, in the
ordinary course, be willing to do or perform.

21. • Eagerness of the Seniors to show their
power, authorities & superiority.
• An attitude of backlash a ” do unto others
what others did to you”.
• (Similar to Mother-in-law Vs. Daughter-in-
law syndrome).

22. ♦ There are core groups of
students who are bullies and
personality disorders and are
a terror in the hostels. Such
students must be identified,
counselled and shouls be
kept on check.
♦ Poor functioning of Hostel
Wardens.
♦ Lack of interest of faculty
members in Anti-ragging
activities.

23. ALCHOL IS THE
MAIN CAUSE OF
RAGGING IN
HOSTELS
SPECIALLY IN
BOYS HOSTELS

24.  PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR
CURBING RAGGING RESTS WITH
ACADEMIC INSTITUTION
THEMSELVES

26. Universities & Colleges are centres of
Learning and aremeant for developing :
 Mutual Respect,
 Friendship &
 Understanding
Their sanctity must be Maintained.

27. UGC Guidelines

28. The guidelines must be
formulated by our Universities
as per the Hon’ble Supreme
Court Directions & Raghavan
Committee Report

29. CONSTITUTE:
INSTITUTIONAL ANTI RAGGING COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF:
1. Principal/Dean – Chairman
2. Senior Faculty Member – Coordinator
3. Faculty Member – Member
4. Representative from Local Administration – Member
5. Representative of Parents – Member
6. Representative of students (Senior) – Member
(Junior) – Member
7. Local Media/NGO - Member

30. NOMINATED BY THE HEAD OF THE
INSTITUTION
CONSISTING OF:
1. SENIOR FACULTY MEMBER -1
2. WARDEN – BOYS HOSTEL & -1
GIRLS HOSTEL -1
3. NON TEACHING MEMBER -1
4. MENTORING CELL UNIT -1

31. ♦ This unit is to oversee and involve the
senior students as ‘MENTOR’ for the
FRESHERS.
♦ Should be framed at the end of academic
year.
♦ One member from Second Year for 6
freshers.
♦ One second level mentor from third year
and so on.
♦ 3-4 members for 6 freshers. These shall
work under the advise of anti-ragging squad.

32. • To vigil, oversight and patrolling
function
• Surprise checks during night.
• Accountable for all happenings
in the Institution.
• Help-Line Nos. must be
available to all freshers.
• Interact with freshers.

33. • To contact Head of Institution, in case of any
happening.
• Submission of Daily Report to the Senior Faculty
Member Incharge of the squad.
• Organising Introduction of Freshers under the
supervision of Warden & Faculty member in
cordial manner.
• Organising Fresher – Day - A Welcome Party.
• To organise orientation week programme for the
Fresher.

34. ♦ Address by Principal
♦ Familarization with campus & the warden.
♦ Introduction to each other & grouping.
♦ Acquaintance with the Anti-Ragging procedure,
anti-ragging squad.
♦ Instructions to resist ragging.
♦ Shout-raise alarm & attract attention of the people
around.
♦ Always move in groups.
♦ In case of emergency, call help-line Nos./meet anti-
ragging squad.

35. • To appraise the Senior Students about
Hon’ble Supreme Court’s Directive &
Raghvan Committee Report.
• To appraise about the punishment under
I.P.C. Act.

36. ♦ Local Hostels – outside the campus area
must be registered with local authorities by
the Head of the Institution & University must
be intimated.
♦ Imprisonment/fine upto Rs. 25,000/-
expulsion from the Institution/cancellation of
admission/suspension from the
college/hostel/fine etc. etc.

38. Anti-ragging movement
 With the situation of ragging
worsening yearly, there is
emerging a spontaneous anti-
ragging movement in India.
Several voluntary organizations
have emerged, who conduct drives
for public awareness and arrange
for support to victims.
 The Indian media has been playing
a crucial role by exposing raggingragging
incidentsincidents and the indifference of
many concerned institutions
towards curbing the act. The
Supreme Court of India has
directed, in its interim judgement,
that action may be taken even
against negligent institutions.

39.  Online groups like Coalition toCoalition to
Uproot Ragging from IndiaUproot Ragging from India
(CURE), Stopragging, No Ragging
Foundation became the major Anti
Ragging groups on the Internet.
 Among them, the No Ragging
Foundation has transformed into a
complete NGO and got registered
as Society Against Violence inSociety Against Violence in
Education (SAVEEducation (SAVE) which is
India's first registered Anti
Ragging non profit organization
(NGO).These groups are working
on issues related to ragging. Each
of them is running anti ragging
websites and online groups.

41. INCENTIVES FOR
CURBING RAGGING
& DIS-INCENTIVES
FOR FAILURE TO DO
SO

42. The menace of ragging corrodes
the vitals and enviornment of
the campus

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