Institutions should have committees in place to ensure counselling and support services for students; ensure prevention of harassment - EducationTimes.com
Ragging Culture: Looking Back At The Death Of Aman Kachroo That Pushed For State-wise Measures outlookindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from outlookindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rajendra Kachroo started an NGO against ragging after he lost his 19-year-old son in 2009 and was a part of the UGC’s anti-ragging committee for nearly a decade. Following the suicide of a 17-year-old at Jadavpur University (JU), allegedly due to ragging, Kachroo said such incidents cannot be “brushed under the carpet”
Despite official campaigns against the practice, ragging has never been an issue in campus politics. Far less does it figure in the larger political arena, where ideological debates are similarly oblivious to gender discrimination, hate crimes, all generated by the same psychopathology of violence linked to the exercise of power