Jammu varsity set to uproot ragging

Jammu varsity set to uproot ragging
Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Jammu, April 26
As the University of Jammu (JU) prepares for the new academic session, it has also geared itself to check the menace of ragging by launching a campaign to welcome the freshers and to provide them peaceful environment.

On its part, the state government recently passed an Anti-Ragging Bill to deal with violators more strictly.

To ensure that the directions of the Supreme Court on ragging is followed in letter and spirit, the university authorities have pasted a number of posters and pamphlets on all notice boards and important places to inform the students that ragging is prohibited.

The authorities have also uploaded UGC guidelines on ragging on the university’s website. All these measures are being taken to ensure that not even a single incident of ragging takes place.

The university has also constituted an anti-ragging squad comprising senior officials to deal with any such incident, if it occurs.

A visit to the University reveals the seriousness on the part of the authorities in deal with this menace.

A senior official of the university said, “We have appealed to the senior students to deal with the freshers as their family members”.

He added, “The students have also agreed that they will not bring a bad name to this prestigious institution by indulging in ragging”.

The university has also been taking an affidavit from the students that they will not get indulge in ragging or any other illegal activity.

“If any student found involved in any such incident, he will be expelled and booked under the law,” said the official.

However, he added that there was nothing to worry about, but “sometimes students belonging to different communities do indulge in illegal activities that’s why we are adopting preventive measures”.