Hyderabad, September 25: District officials asked managements of professional colleges to take concrete measures to check ragging in educational institutions by creating awareness on its ill-effects.
The district collector, Mr S.A.M. Rizvi, commissioner of police, Mr P. Madhu-sudan Reddy and the district superintendent of police, Mr Ramakrishna, addressed district officials and managements of colleges at the sub-collector’s conference hall on Friday. The meeting was convened in the backdrop of opening professional colleges for new students.
Mr Rizvi said that colleges must take undertaking letters from students and parents as per the Anti-Ragging Act and create awareness on the ill-consequences of ragging.
The collector said that colleges must display the phone numbers of nodal officers, hostel wardens, college principals and counsellors in prominent places in the colleges so that affected students can get immediate help. He said that local police will file FIRs on students who indulge in ragging.
Mr Madhusudhan Reddy said that the police department was ready to help the college managements to check ragging. He suggested appointment of counsellors, arranging complaint boxes in colleges and maintaining a relationship with local police officials. He said that hostel wardens play a vital role to check breach of peace.
The commissioner of police recalled that sheets were opened on some students for clashes in two engineering colleges and asked college managements to inform police immediately about breach of peace.
Mr Ramakrishna said that students indulging in ragging were liable for imprisonment from six months to life, and suggested that nodal officers and counsellors play an active role in creating awareness on the Anti-Ragging Act.
—Source:DC