Ragging is a criminal offense and UGC has framed regulations on curbing the menace of ragging in higher educational institutions in order to prohibit, prevent and eliminate the scourge of ragging.
In our nation’s higher education system, ragging is an unsettling reality. Even though, throughout time, ragging. Despite the fact that the practice has destroyed thousands of talented students’ careers and claimed hundreds of innocent lives, many people still view it as a young college student’s “initiation into the real world” and “familiarization” process. Ragging is described as any disorderly behaviour that has the effect of taunting, treating, or handling a new or junior student rudely, whether through words or deeds. Participating in raucous or unruly behaviour that irritates, burdens, or harms one’s psyche, or that inspires worry or anxiety about it in a junior or new student. Asking pupils to perform or engage in any act that they would not normally do in class and that could potentially cause them to feel ashamed or embarrassed could have a negative impact on a new or junior student’s physical or mental health. This may result in negative consequences like anxiety, despair, and occasionally even suicidal thoughts.
Punishment Provisions-
- Admissions cancellation
- Denying admission to any university or sessional test, or suppressing results from a sport competition, youth event, etc.
- Removing financial aid and other advantages academic perks and attendance prohibitions.
Member of Anti Ragging Cell-
- Dr. Sunita Choudhary
- Jaiprakash Dabariya
- K.L. Yadav
- Pooja Jangir