Anti-ragging committee for a ragging-free JNU
Parul Sharma
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In line with apex court directive to combat ragging
“JNU is not vulnerable to any form of ragging”
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NEW DELHI: In line with the Supreme Court directive instructing educational institutions to be pro-active in dealing with the menace of ragging, Jawaharlal Nehru University has set up an anti-ragging committee, the first since its inception.
For an institution that has almost no history of ragging, the committee will seek to work in tandem with student councillors of different schools at JNU to deal with such cases, if any. The committee will meet next month to outline a clearer role for its members as the new academic year begins on August 1.
The three-member committee is headed by the Dean of School of International Studies, Pushpesh Pant. “Ragging as a concept is alien to JNU. No student has ever complained of ragging in my four decades of association with the University. Our girls are safe on the campus even at midnight, while boys have also never been subject to ragging at any level, not even in the hostels,” he said.
“When I received the notification about the new committee last week, I was really surprised because we really do not need something like this on our campus. In fact, all these years I have wondered why other institutions have not learnt from JNU. Our University is not vulnerable to any form of ragging, not even an occasional incident of a fresher being asked to sing a song or something like that. We have a mixed crowd and there is a lot of freedom on the campus. Our students are also very active and see to it that JNU remains ragging-free.” Prof. Pant pointed out the Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment also takes care of a lot of such issues on the campus. He attributed the no-ragging attitude on the campus to the JNU students’ union office-bearers in the first few years of its coming into being. They used their idealism and discretion to initiate such healthy traditions.
“Everyone lived like a family. The relationship between the teacher and the taught was very good. The students’ union of the early years should be given credit for initiating a positive tradition and inculcating the right attitude on the campus that have been duly continued by others over the years,” said Prof. Pant.
link to report : http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/25/stories/2007072559800300.htm
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Anti-ragging committee for a ragging-free JNU
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Ragging is a very sickening CRIMINAL ACT.
I have witnessed the horror of ragging during my university years in REC, Calicut in 1961-67. Thank God, I was the first batch so that I was not ragged.
But I feel so sorry for all those BABY-FACED youngsters. Some of them were subjected to all kind of SICKENING SEXUAL THINGS.
It is so sad that EVERY ONE TAKES RAGGING AS A JOKE, when poor, innocent BABY-FACE youngsters are subjected to all kind of horrendous unmentionable things.
Lecturers and professors joke about that, but they do not do anything. College authorities keep a BLIND EYE to the atrocities that are committed in the name of ragging.
Ragging is bullying and many use that an excuse to abuse innocent youngsters. It is cruel and it has to be stopped.
Students who indulge in ragging should be criminally prosecuted. School and University authorities who allow Ragging also should be criminally prosecuted.
Let them be thrown into jails where they will be subjected to the same treatment they gave to innocent victims by fellow prisoners.
I was very sick of the whole RAGGING, and I wrote an article about it. The THE HINDU, Madras published it in their Sunday magazine section in 1967…..
Alas! after all these years Ragging is still going on every where in India.
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