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Across the India, several incidents of ragging are being noticed from different colleges. In medical and engineering colleges, students often face different types of college ragging situations. Most of the time senior students do this kind of activities only for the sake of fun. But, the students who are being ragged often oppose their seniors and become the victim of immense torture and humiliation.

To prevent these kinds of activities in colleges, the Government of India has taken a few initiatives that may help students in near future. This is no doubt a great step against ragging but students also have to take some measures to stop ragging in your own colleges. Senior students should be friendly with their juniors and vice-versa. This will improve the educational environment in the colleges.

Recently Delhi University says ‘no’ to ragging and all the senior students welcome juniors with warm wishes. They organized orientation program in which senior students introduced themselves to the juniors. It was a much better approach to enjoy college life. What do you think? Let’s make a ragging free college environment.

For further information about htis, you can go through the link provided below

http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/17/stories/2008071756970100.htm

Numerous incidents of ragging in India are being reported from colleges across the nation. First year students, and sometimes even the 2nd year students in India, have to face the menace of college ragging throughout their academic year. Even girls ragging boy students in college is not an uncommon event in India. Some of the students, unable to bear the torture and humiliation meted out to them, drop out of college or even attempt suicide.

Fortunately, the Government of India and educational institutes in the country are turning proactive in order to prevent the worsening of the college ragging situation. In this blog, I’ll try and counter the arguments that seniors often put forward in favour of college ragging.

Seniors: “College ragging is fun”

Well, the “fun” part depends on which group you belong to: Seniors or Juniors. I would urge the seniors to recollect the time when they were at the receiving end of college ragging. Did you enjoy being ragged by your seniors? I don’t think so! In all probability, you tried your best to maintain a low profile and escape from the clutches of your tormentors. Just because you are certain of the fact that you are not going to be ragged again, that doesn’t give you right to impose cruelty on your juniors. You never know, if you continue with your ill-fated activities, the next ragging session that you encounter could be with the Indian Police!

Seniors: “College ragging prepares the students for the tough world ahead”

Really??? And who gave you the right to decide whether the freshers need to have a crash course in personality development. This is one area of social service that you need not attain specialization in. In any case, you cannot put something like-” Was part of the group that moulded the talents and abilities of freshers in college”- on your resume. So, what’s the big deal?

Seniors: “College ragging breaks the ice”

There’s a lot of difference between “breaking the ice” and “breaking someone’s head”. Sometimes, the seniors fail to realize that! A significant number of freshers have landed up in the hospital as a result of physical assualts made by the seniors. There are better ways of “breaking the ice”. You could, for instance, use your pocket money to arrange a special event for the freshers. But I guess, you’d rather collect money from the juniors to arrange “special events” for your own group, than do something that benefits the freshers .

Accept it. Except in 2 highly specialized fields, there’s no justification for ragging in colleges or other educational establishments. If you feel that college ragging should be allowed, put forward your arguments by posting a comment on my blog. I promise to counter it in a logical and analytical manner!

Although, Apex court has come out with strict orders against the practice of ragging in Delhi colleges but newcomers are under pressure as ragging incidents have still occured in some of the colleges. Some of the TV channels are showing scenes of ragging in the colleges where students are harassed to a large extent.

In order to help the newcomers from ragging, Delhi University Student’s Union has come up with an anti-ragging team for protecting the students from being harassed by their seniors. During the first week the team would visit various colleges under Delhi University during the college hours. Students facing problems may directly contact with DUSU as they are also launching a helpline. DUSU has also wants the assistance of Deputy Commissioner of Police for solving this problem and making life easier for newcomers.

Well, if you are the one to join Delhi University this year, you may feel safe as Supremen court has decided to be strict with students who try to harass their juniors in the name of ragging. It has been decided that strict action will be taken against students who cross their limits. Hopefully, it would make those students understand the seriousness of the matter as this may lead to serious consequences. This step is no doubt a sign of relief for the new joinees.

With the orders against ragging passed by the Supreme Court, freshers can now breathe a sigh of relief on their first day at Delhi University. Ragging has been an age old trend of sorts at DU, which caused much unrest for the first year students. The good news is that ragging will not be tolerated at any level and strict action shall be taken against the bullies.

According to the new rules laid down by the Supreme Court’s committee, any student found to be guilty of ragging at Delhi University shall be expelled. The Supreme Court has appointed the Raghavan Committee, which is responsible for making recommendations with regard to any action to be taken against ragging in DU

I am strictly against ragging in colleges. It makes no sense to disturb or irritate a person who have just joined the college for pursuing higher studies. Although, this has been a practice since a long time but the scenario has changed a lot over the years. Unnecessary harassments even forces students to leave college and creates a panic, which is considered to be very harmful for students. Things should always be within limits and special care should be taken so that it may not turn serious.