Ragging has claimed hundreds of innocent lives and has ruined the careers of thousands of students. A total of cases of ragging were reported in the English print media alone across the country from January to September However, the media reports tend to focus on extreme cases and do not reveal the true extent of ragging.
The next day, Aman went to the college hospital complaining of a severe head ache. He succumbed to his head injuries that night.
The four accused students were freed on "good conduct" in They were re-enrolled in a government college upon their release. They will however not be able to join any government jobs. Another shocking case of ragging came when in , a year-old aeronautical engineering student, Ajmal PM was set on fire by his seniors!
The student was studying at an engineering college in Bangalore, where he was ragged by a group of four seniors who had failed and were in his class.
As he went inside the common bathroom, Ajmal could smell thinner and soon enough, the room was set on fire. In , a pharmacy student from the Calcutta Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology was found dead near railway tracks in Kolkata.
Reports suggested that the year-old was ragged and beaten up by his seniors in college. Reports claimed that Akash was bullied by the accused continuously during his time in the institute. In fact, others claimed that he was also stopped from taking a very crucial test by the five.
His friends helped recognize five suspects who were suspended from the college. It is yet to be determined that they ragged him and it has been taken as a case of suicide. Evidently, more needs to be done. The law and order approach to combating ragging will not suffice because the roots of ragging lie in society. Despite lofty ideals, many educational institutions end up being microcosms of the social world, replicating its values while failing to provide students an environment that fosters the critical consciousness and ethical clarity so necessary for true social progress.
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Although ragging can happen in any college, it is most prevalent in medical and engineering colleges. The reason being most students live on campus and are thus soft targets. Ragging can assume any form -- abusive language directed at the student or his family, making juniors run errands for seniors, sexual abuse, forcing freshers to strip or speak obscenely about professors in front of other students.
Basically, any form of abuse against juniors amounts to ragging. If any of this is happening to you, inform your family about it first. Going against one's college seniors can be stressful for a fresher, so make sure you have all the support you can get from your family and friends. The second step is to approach the institute's authorities. Inform them of the goings-on and the names of the culprits. Most colleges have an anti-ragging cell -- an association of professors and students who track down and take disciplinary action against students indulging in ragging.
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