Higher education department to focus on countering ragging on social media
TNN | Updated: Sep 8, 2017, 11:00 IST
TNN | Updated: Sep 8, 2017, 11:00 IST
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CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu higher education departmentwill soon be working on ways to counter ragging faced by students via social media platforms. This was one of the key points discussed on Thursday during a meeting of the state-level monitoring cell to eradicate the menace of ragging in educational institutions.
The meeting held at Raj Bhavan was attended by TN governor Vidyasagar Rao, higher education minister K P Anbalagan, and higher education secretary Sunil Paliwal.
Paliwal said ragging was earlier usually associated with physical forms of harassment which is not the case anymore. "It is now more of online platforms and social media forums that have become channels of harassment. We want to come up with strategies so that students would know whom to approach and how to counter such kinds of ragging issues. We will discuss on how colleges can counter such non-conventional modes of ragging," he said, speaking to TOI.
It was also suggested that district-level meetings on ragging could be held during the month of July at the commencement of the academic year so as to review measures related to ragging.
Another point raised during the meeting was to help freshers as well as students across all years bond through extra-curricular activities on campuses. The department will be instructing colleges on encouraging extra-curricular activities as a mode of building bonds and familiarising new students as well.
The department has also prepared a documentary on anti-ragging that was entrusted to National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) which was approved by the governor on Thursday and will be screened at cinema halls and educational institutions.
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu higher education departmentwill soon be working on ways to counter ragging faced by students via social media platforms. This was one of the key points discussed on Thursday during a meeting of the state-level monitoring cell to eradicate the menace of ragging in educational institutions.
The meeting held at Raj Bhavan was attended by TN governor Vidyasagar Rao, higher education minister K P Anbalagan, and higher education secretary Sunil Paliwal.
Paliwal said ragging was earlier usually associated with physical forms of harassment which is not the case anymore. "It is now more of online platforms and social media forums that have become channels of harassment. We want to come up with strategies so that students would know whom to approach and how to counter such kinds of ragging issues. We will discuss on how colleges can counter such non-conventional modes of ragging," he said, speaking to TOI.
It was also suggested that district-level meetings on ragging could be held during the month of July at the commencement of the academic year so as to review measures related to ragging.
Another point raised during the meeting was to help freshers as well as students across all years bond through extra-curricular activities on campuses. The department will be instructing colleges on encouraging extra-curricular activities as a mode of building bonds and familiarising new students as well.
The department has also prepared a documentary on anti-ragging that was entrusted to National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) which was approved by the governor on Thursday and will be screened at cinema halls and educational institutions.
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