Hyderabad: College principals, university registrars to be held responsible for extreme ragging and suicides in educational institutions

Hyderabad: College directors and university registrars will be held responsible in future in cases of extreme misconduct and suicide in higher education institutions. To control cases of abuse and suicide on campuses, the University Commission (UGC) has attempted to strengthen rules against abuse and improve accounting. A recent notice issued by the UGC said: “From now on, for extreme cases of abuse and suicide, the college director and the university registrar will be called and held accountable to the National Monitoring Committee against Abuse for the reasons Will go.” Merchants not following UGC rules. It has ordered the IES to send its universities’ cells and anti-ragging squads to a legal advisor so that a proper case can be presented against the culprits. Stating that entrapment is a criminal offence, the UGC said it has developed rules to prevent the menace of entrapment. The “Regulations of UGC to Prevent the Menace of Irregularities in Higher Education Institutions, 2009” is mandatory and calls upon all institutions to adopt necessary measures for its thorough implementation including monitoring mechanism. Universities, as part of the anti-ragging mechanism, should constitute an anti-ragging committee, anti-ragging squads and an anti-ragging cell, apart from installing CCTV cameras at important points. In addition to inspecting dormitories, dining halls, rest and recreation rooms, bathrooms, and bus stops, institutions should post signs against manipulation at prominent locations on the university campus. As per the directions of the Anti-Ragging Monitoring Committee constituted by the Tribunal Supreme, the UGC asked the IES to implement the concept of mentor-apprentice to create a seamless relationship between the youth and the elders. Institutions are also requested to guarantee interaction and periodic counseling with students, identification of factors giving rise to problems and mention of warnings against cheating in electronic prospectuses and electronic information booklets.