Central Agency to Check Ragging, Govt tells SC
The government is going to set up a central agency in a week to prevent and monitor incidences of ragging occurring in educational institutions, said government representative in the Supreme Court. The government has recently received a report establishing a link between alcoholism by senior students and ragging.
Following death of his son Aman Kachroo, a first year MBBS student of medical college from Himachal Pradesh, who died due to ragging last month, his father Rajendra Kachroo came out with the concept of setting up a central agency with its website having a helpline.
“Rajender Kachroo has treated the personal tragedy as a motivation for doing social service and has suggested the setting up of a central agency which will also be in a nature of web-based agency with a helpline and government will make it operational within a week,” additional solicitor general Gopal Subramanium told a Bench headed by Arijit Pasayat.
Subramnium, who is assisting the court as amicus curiae in the matter, placed before the Bench the report of the high-level committee which probed the incident of ragging leading to the death of Aman.
Alcoholism in the campus, failure of college to constitute anti-ragging squad and implement recommendations of R K Raghavan Committee set up by the apex court to prevent ragging and “irresponsible” role of Medical Council of India (MCI), the regulatory body for medical colleges, were cited as some of the reasons in the report of the two-member panel, which culminated in the death of Aman due to ragging.
