L K Tripathy, the regional director of education, Berhampur, has directed all the government and private college authorities to collect such undertaking from each newly admitted student to ensure ragging-free college campuses in the state.
Odisha govt makes anti-ragging undertaking mandatory in HEIs for freshers
The Odisha government has now made it mandatory for all the students who are taking admitted to the degree colleges to submit an undertaking not to indulge or abet in ragging, an official said. L K Tripathy, the regional director of education, Berhampur, has directed all the government and private college authorities to collect such undertaking from each newly admitted student to ensure ragging-free college campuses in the state.
The regional director's directives in this regard were issued considering the recent incidents in Bhubaneswar and Bolangir where students had allegedly committed suicide due to ragging by senior students in their respective colleges. On July 2, first-year plus-III girl students committed suicide in BJB Autonomous College in Bhubaneswar. Another MBBS student in Bolangir had allegedly jumped off the fourth floor of the medical college ending his life.
Considering the rise in ragging in higher educational institutions, Tripathy in the letter said, "Each student will be asked to give written undertaking not to indulge or abet ragging.” He has also asked the principals to form anti-ragging squads, and committees in each institute and sensitize the students, including the fresher and seniors about the anti-ragging provisions.
"The leaflets or the brochures on the anti-ragging provisions should be distributed to each student of the colleges," he said.
He has also urged the parents and guardians of the fresher or junior students to promptly bring to the notice of the head of the institution if any such instance of ragging comes to their notice. He also asked college heads to ensure that a full-time warden is residing within or near every hostel.
The anti-ragging movement should be taken from the beginning of admission in the colleges to ensure a ragging-free campus and no act of ragging, major or minor, should go unnoticed, he said. “No ragger, male or female student or non-student, should go unpunished” he said.
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