Earthsoft Foundation of Guidance presents - Stop ragging

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Stop Ragging
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Index

• What is ragging
• Seed
• Types
• Ragging Stakeholders
• Ragging Statistics
• Be careful
• The Vicious Circle
• Consequences of Ragging
• Negative impact
• Impact on family college
• Psyche of a Ragger
• Ragging Cases
• Ragging Views

• Ragging Legal Eye
• Law Enforcement
• Ragging Misperception
• Ragging Societal Denial
• Myths and Facts
• Actions to be taken
• Solution Directions
• Measures
• College Authorities
• Government regulators
• Media
• Dont rag, interact, report
• Conclusion

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Objectives

• To educate students by sharing
• Impact of ragging
• Punishment due to ragging
• To encourage senior students to stop ragging
• To establish public opinion against ragging
• To share the myths about ragging
• To share social noble work being done
• Thank you authors for available content on web

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What is ragging

• Ragging is any systematic human rights abuse and
  disorderly conduct,
• by words spoken or written, or by an act
• has the effect of teasing, treating or handling
  with rudeness indulging undisciplined activities
• which cause or are likely to cause annoyance, or
  psychological harm or fear or apprehension
• in any student, a fresher or a junior student
• which has the effect of causing or generating a
  sense of shame or embarrassment
• so as to adversely affect their psyche and
• to exert their dominance over the juniors

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Seed

• The ragging problem is a legacy of the British,
• Who imported the practice to India
• Ragging is termed as Hazing, fagging,
  horse-playing, bullying, etc.
• First ragging related death occurred in 1873 in
  Cornell University in the US
• Extreme forms of hazing have disappeared in
  Britain, till continue in India Asian countries
• Strict laws were made in various countries, their
  Universities devised alternative methods of
  interactions and seeing positive effect

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Types

• Ragging act may be combination of one or more in
  terms of verbal, physical sexual aggression
• Forms of ragging
• Forceful Introduction
• Dress code ragging
• Verbal torture using abusive vulgar language
• Demanding undisciplined abusive acts
• Playing the fool, misguiding, harassing, etc
• Sexual Abuse or Physical abuse
• Drug Abuse

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Ragging Stakeholders



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Ragging Statistics
Statistics 2007-2008 Annual avg (03-08) Remarks
No of cases 89 46 Doubled
Deaths 11 5.6 Doubled
Form of ragging 43 Physical 44 Physical No change
Place Engg 31 Medical 17 Other - 52 Engg - 32 Medical 17 Others - 51 No change
Police intervention 50 54 No change
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Be careful

• If it is proved YOU have ragged the complainant
  (student), it will
• Liable Non-bailable warrant against YOU
• Liable YOU for arrest without warrant
• Get YOU terminated from college
• Land YOU in Jail
• Punish YOU with Imprisonment

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The Vicious Circle

• Students believe
• Its their right to rag their juniors
• It is only the way of interactions with freshers
• Ragging will help freshers later
• It is now their turn to rag others
• They being ragged are familiar with their seniors
  thus it ensures the legacy of ragging

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Consequences of Ragging

• Severe stress, sleepless nights worries
• Serious psychological trauma
• Post traumatic stress disorders
• Physical injury through beating, hitting by
  object or by forcing to perform dangerous tasks
• Fear, anxiety, depression
• Forceful initiation to alcoholism, smoking, drugs
• Group violence
• Running away from college hostel
• It leads to mob mentality and violent mindset
• Can also result in deaths.

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Negative impact

• Permanent scar due to ragging may haunt for years
  in victims mind
• The victim declines into a shell, forcing himself
  into ignominy and alienation from the rest world
• Ragging causes grave psychological stress and
  trauma the victim
• It demoralizes the victim dreams get shattered
• Those who succumb to ragging may drop out thereby
  hampering their career prospects
• Incidents of suicides have also been reported

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Impact on family college

• Parents undergone severe stress when they see
  their child suffering in pain and stress.
• Has to incur medical incidental expenses to
  rehabilitate their child
• To bear the trauma of seeing prospective career
  coming to an end
• How ragging impacts the educational institutions
• Lowers the branding character
• Lowers reputation and goodwill it has built
• It destroys the respect and faith of the society

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Psyche of a Ragger

• Ragging is not merely socio-legal problem but it
  has a certain psychological basis too
• Few possible reasons that initiate ragging
• Sense of Authority
• Means of Retaliation
• Sadistic Pleasures
• Peer pressure
• Fashion Statement

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Psyche of a Ragger

• Discrimination based on caste, region, language,
  class etc plays a vital role for ragger.
• It is reciprocation to injustice for seeking
  justice
• It is considered as courage of seniors. Many
  succumb to peer pressure.
• Lack of affirmation assertiveness, saying No
  firmly to wrongful deeds
• Due to rush and excitement in the group the
  seniors get carried away and ragging turns ugly.
• Students consider ragging as an old ritual having
  social acceptance
• Victim is the next perpetrator

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Ragging Cases

• Medical student lynched - Himachal Pradesh
• Freshers kills two seniors who tried to rag him -
  Andhra Pradesh
• C. Lalitha, victims mother, commits suicide -
  Andhra Pradesh
• First year student gang-raped - Kerala
• Girl forced into group sex - West Bengal
• Principal beats up students for complaining
  against ragging - Madhya Pradesh
• Physically challenged girl student assaulted -
  Andhra Pradesh

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Ragging Views

• Ragging in essence is a human rights abuse. In
  present time, shocking incidents of ragging have
  come to the notice. The student is physically
  tortured or psychologically terrorized Supreme
  Court of India (Feb 11, 2009)
• If education is to serve as the lever to the
  great surge forward of the Indian nation, the
  scourge of ragging which corrodes the vitals of
  our campuses needs to be curbed
• Ragging adversely impacts the standards of
  higher education Raghavan Committee

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Ragging Legal Eye

• Ragging means the doing of any act which causes
  or is likely to cause any physical or
  psychological harm of apprehension or shame or
  embarrassment to a student.
• It includes -
• (a) teasing or abusing or playing practical joke
  on, or causing hurt to any student Or
• (b) asking forcefully any student to do any act,
  or perform anything which he/she would not in the
  ordinary course be willing to do perform.

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Ragging Law Enforcement

• Colleges have not equipped to handle cases
• Loss of reputation is a dis-incentive to act
  it was a prank
• Very difficult to establish the legal case, very
  little proof exists
• Victim anonymity a big concern, complainant is
  ostracized
• Cases Jyoti/Vivek Ranjan, etc.
• academic pressure led to suicide
• anonymous complaints untenable

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Ragging Misperception

• Societal Acceptance Denial
• Boldness, Growing up pill
• Law Enforcement vs. Reputation
• It was a prank
• Victims character assassination
• Psychology Vicious Circle victim becomes the
  perpetrator, cycle goes on.

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Ragging Societal Denial

• Ragging makes the fresher BOLD
• BOLDNESS is standing up against oppression, not
  succumbing to it!
• Ragging helps breaking the ice with seniors
• Archaic method of interaction
• Ragging is not considered a social evil.
• Colleges deny its acceptance in campus for their
  good reputation and to avoid the possibility of
  strike and hooliganism by students.
• Most seniors have indulged in it as seniors and
  later justify its morality

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Ragging Societal Denial

• People consider ragging as simple teasing,
  dancing etc. as usually portrayed by the media
  and doesnt know its real extent in hostels.
• If people come across any severe case of ragging
  they take it as an exception.
• When a ragging incident is reported, then since
  it involves a severe punishment, it generates
  sympathy towards the senior and leads to
  compromise and suppression of the case.
• All these facts hamper in establishing a public
  opinion against ragging

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Myths and Facts

• Myth Ragging makes students bold strong,
  preparing them for the difficult circumstances
• Fact - It teaches them how to be exploited and
  mutely, non resistively accept it.
• Myth Ragging helps in breaking ice, better
  interactions and developing friendship between
  seniors and freshers.
• Fact Ragging is a archaic method with several
  harmful effects. With advance psychological
  science there are healthy effective ways of
  interactions without human rights abuse.

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Myths and Facts

• Myth Ragging generate the feeling of unity and
  oneness.
• Fact Ragging divides the students on the lines
  of cost, region, class, seniority, strength, etc.
  It sets mob mentality students
• Myth Severe ragging is not prevalent any more.
• Fact Severe ragging is widely prevalent in most
  of the colleges hostels. There have been more
  than 25 deaths due to ragging in 7 last year The
  problem is not yet solved, it is just hidden.

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Actions to be taken

• File First Information Report (FIR) with police
• Stringent immediate actions by the Anti-
  Ragging Committee depending upon the nature
  could be one or more in combination
• Cancellation of admission from college hostel
• Withdrawing scholarship, fellowship, benefits
• Debarring from tournament, youth festival, etc
• Financial fine of Rupees 25000/- or more
• To resort collective punishment
• To report incidents of ragging, actions taken and
  the status updates to the Council immediately

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Solution Directions

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Measures

• Ragging is a menace that need to tackled by the
  government educational authorities together
• Responsibilities to be fixed in case ragging
  happens

At College level At Government level
Awareness Educational programs across institutes To implement anti-ragging guidelines.
Promoting introductory session SNS, cultural events for fresher-senior Task force to monitor the activities
Pro-active checking in the hostels and anonymous surveys with freshers National level awareness educational campaigns , promotion of anti-ragging
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Measures
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Ragging College Authorities

• Clear accountability of the college staff in case
  of any ragging incident
• More authorities to college-hostel administrators
• Regular checks, visits to rooms, and
  interactions-feedback by the hostel warden
• Simplification of ragging complaint system,
  friendlier, safer confidential for the freshers
  
• Immediate enquiry action by administrators
• Administrators to be in close contact with
  freshers to instill a sense of confidence
• To ask parents to educate their child

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Ragging College Authorities

• Sessions to introduce freshers to seniors
• Promote alternative methods of interactions eg.
  Dramas, Dance, Sports, Trips, Games Gathering
  in the presence of hostel warden,
• Encourage making friends using social media
  networking website
• Introduce the concept of sub-group mentorship,
  with few chosen seniors responsible for the well
  being of different groups of freshers.
• Assign local guardian to all fresher from seniors
• Colleges to appoint moral tutors for the purpose

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Ragging College Authorities

• Create a massive nationwide awareness
• Funding for intensive research on ragging
• To make ragging a social evil
• To highlight its ill-effects
• To establish a public opinion against it
• To seeking help of print digital media
• To spread negative word using social networking
  websites
• In an event of severe ragging, victim must be
  given an option to change the college/hostel

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Government regulators

• To implement anti-ragging guidelines
• To monitor activities of task force
• To train the administrators
• To manage national level awareness campaigns
• HRD ministry to co-ordinate intensively across
• To establish clarity and accountability between
  various stakeholders
• To incorporate Lesson related to ragging in
  school curriculum educate
• To setup a toll-free national level helpline
• To encourage NGOs working in the sector

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Media

• To sensitise media for its role in ragging
  eradication
• To bring out the larger problem of ragging
• To spread awareness about severe punishment
• To established ragging as a social taboo
• To utilise SNS websites to create social
  awareness anti-ragging environment

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Dont rag, interact, report

• Toll free Helpline No - 1800 180 5522 or 155222
• Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education
  (CURE) Email - cure_at_noragging.com
• Website - www.noragging.com
• Blog - www.noragging.blogspot.com
• Regulatory bodies like
• All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
• University Grants Commission (UGC)
• Medical Council of India (MCI)
• Dental Council of India (DCI)

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Conclusion

• The Indian govt has banned ragging , but still we
  hear many incidents every year
• Let us join hands
• Let us make a difference
• Let us put a stop
• And put an end to this evil!
• Dont rag.interact and behave!

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Thank You
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Reference slides
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Cases

• New Delhi, August 21, 2011 Read
  http//indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ragging-college
  s-declines-hrd-statistics/1/148712.html
• Aman Kachroo was all of 19 and in freshman year
  of medical school when, fed up with the incessant
  ragging by his seniors, he decided to end his
  life on March 8, 2009
• Four senior students of a Himachal Pradesh
  medical college, whose savage ragging killed
  19-year-old Aman Kachroo last year, were handed
  four years' rigorous imprisonment by a Dharamsala
  court on Thursday.
• Read more at http//indiatoday.intoday.in/story/p
  atna-medico-commits-suicide-after-being-harassed-b
  y-seniors/1/127916.html
• Patna, January 28, 2011 - First year student of
  Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH)
  18-year-old Sunny Kumar Roshan committed suicide
  after being allegedly harassed by his seniors.
• Thursday, Ashwani Pratap, an MBA student, was
  found hanging from a ceiling fan at his house in
  Patna.
• Read more at http//indiatoday.intoday.in/story/p
  atna-medico-commits-suicide-after-being-harassed-b
  y-seniors/1/127916.html

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Cases

• Ramjas College on Thursday suspended a BSc
  student for allegedly ragging his classmate.
  (Read more at http//indiatoday.intoday.in/story/
  ramjas-student-suspended-for-ragging/1/113761.html
  
• Ghaziabad engg student Abhishek, a student of
  SRRM Engineering College family alleges ragging
  http//indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ghaziabad-engg-
  student-dies,-family-alleges-ragging/1/109226.html
  
• Student loses eyesight after raggingHeadlines
  Today May 9, 2010 21-yr-old Abdul Latif loses
  vision in one of his eyes after being ragged by
  seniors at the National College of Engineering in
  Tamil Nadu.Read more at http//indiatoday.intoday
  .in/video/Studentloseseyesightafterragging/1/9
  6582.html
• Ragging Student tries to kill selfHeadlines
  September 7, 2010 Vishal Yadav, 18, a B.Tech
  student of the Pranveer Singh Institute of
  Technology (PSIT), Kanpur, consumes insecticide
  disturbed over his ragging.Read more at
  http//indiatoday.intoday.in/video/kanpur-student-
  tries-to-kill-self/1/111804.html
• Ragging MMS rocks BHU 4 students held. Read more
  at http//indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ragging-mms
  -rocks-bhu-4-students-held/1/113009.html

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Actions

• http//articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-0
  7-29/india/28298295_1_highest-number-total-cases-d
  eaths-rise
• PUNE The academic year 2009-10 registered has
  highest number of ragging deaths in recent times
  in the country. Maharashtra is one of the two
  states that have registered highest number .In
  the last 12 months, 19 cases of deaths and 4
  cases of attempted suicides allegedly due to
  ragging were reported. This year, a total of 161
  complaints of ragging have been made by victims
  across the country as against 195 complaints
  received during the same period (January to
  August) last year. A decrease of about 17.4 per
  cent in the incidents of ragging in comparison to
  2010
• Maximum (50 complaints) have come just from two
  states - Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal
• Three students were rusticated from a dental
  college in Rajasthan, five suspended from dental
  colleges in Rajasthan, two students were not
  enrolled in a college in Orissa and Assam this
  year
• Ragging cases double, deaths rise too
• Taken an undertaking from the students at the
  time of admission, stating that they will not aid
  or abet ragging on campus
• Read more at http//indiatoday.intoday.in/story/r
  agging-colleges-declines-hrd-statistics/1/148712.h
  tml

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