The Odisha authorities has made it obligatory for college kids taking admission in diploma faculties to submit an endeavor to not indulge or abet ragging. LK Tripathy, the regional director of schooling, Berhampur has written to all authorities and personal school authorities to gather such undertakings from every recent scholar to make sure ragging-free school campus.
The regional director’s letter on this regard got here following some latest incidents in Bhubaneswar and Bolangir the place college students allegedly dedicated suicide because of ragging by senior college students of their respective establishments. While a primary 12 months Plus-III woman scholar died by suicide in BJB Autonomous College in Bhubaneswar on July 2, a MBBS scholar in Bolangir had allegedly jumped off the fourth ground of the medical school ending his life.
Keeping the rising development of ragging in greater academic establishments, Tripathy within the letter said: “Each student will be asked to give written undertaking not to indulge or abet ragging.” At the identical time he additional requested the principals to kind anti-ragging squads, committees in every institute and sensitize the scholars, together with the brisker and seniors in regards to the anti-ragging provisions. “The leaflets or the brochures on the anti-ragging provisions should be distributed to each student of the colleges,” he mentioned.
The official additionally urged the dad and mom and guardians of the brisker or junior college students to promptly convey to the discover of the pinnacle of the establishment if any such occasion of the ragging come to their discover.
Tripathy additionally requested school heads to make sure that every hostel had a full-time warden who resided inside or close to the hostel.
The anti-ragging motion must be taken from the start of the admission within the faculties to make sure ragging-free campus, mentioned Tripathy, including that no act of ragging, main or minor, ought to go unnoticed. “No ragger, male or female student or non-student, should go unpunished” he mentioned.
Ganjam Collector Dibya Jyoti Parida on July 7 had additionally held a gathering of the heads of the most important institutes, principally technical establishments and requested them to take strict anti-ragging measures from the start of the classes. The Collector additionally requested them to create consciousness among the many college students in regards to the anti-ragging provisions.
Action was taken in opposition to a home surgeon in MKCG Medical College and hospital right here within the month of May for allegedly indulging in ragging on a junior medical scholar in school.
With inputs from PTI.
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