NMC sets up anti-ragging panel, seeks details of suicides by students
The committee has sent a notice to all colleges asking them to send in the details of the students by October 7.
The National Medical Commission has formed an anti-ragging panel that has asked medical colleges for details on suicides by students over the last five years. The committee reviewed ragging complaints from students and parents during its first meeting held in September this year. An email id, antiragging@nmc.org, has been created to report such incidents, providing students another redressal mechanism outside college.
A notice from the NMC read, “All colleges are requested to give wide publicity by publishing the same on their websites and displaying on the prominent places such as hostel, mess, classroom, library, lecture hall, common room, etc. A compliance report in this regard may kindly be sent.”
As per a report published in The Indian Express, the committee has also asked medical colleges to send in details about the number of students who committed suicide during the last five years (department-wise in respect of postgraduate students), the number of students who have left the college or institute during the last five years, and details of the working hours and weekly offs given to students.
The committee has asked all colleges to send in the details by October 7, while adding that “all incidents of suicide and suicidal tendency are not linked to ragging.”
Aviral Mathur, president of the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association and a resident doctor at Maulana Azad Medical College, said: “The anti-ragging sentiment has been gaining momentum since early 2000s and there is hardly any ragging in most medical colleges; we do see a few cases here and there. Although it is a good step — and this kind of blanket approach is needed to prevent such incidents anywhere — if the NMC is trying to curtail issues that lead to a mental health crisis, this is not a major one.”
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