A Supreme Court-appointed committee has pulled up the Medical Council of India (MCI) for not taking adequate measures to check incidents of ragging in medical colleges.
At its 17th meeting here recently, the anti-ragging monitoring committee noted that the medical colleges were the “hot-beds” for ragging of students in the country but the MCI was yet to set up an anti-ragging cell for receiving complaints from the students and facilitating their prompt redressal, official sources told Deccan Herald.
The committee, headed by former chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) R K Raghavan, asked the MCI to set up a dedicated anti-ragging cell to deal with complaint of students even as the council insisted that all grievances of students were being taken care of through a grievance redressal cell.
The monitoring committee rejected the council’s counter argument over setting up of a dedicated unit to deal with the cases of ragging, noting that there was a huge difference between an anti-ragging cell and a grievance redressal cell.
It took note of reports of a large number of cases of ragging in various medical colleges including the one case of “mass ragging” of students at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi of Jharkhand in January this year, saying “no concrete action” had been taken by the council in these cases including those reported in the past.
“Medical colleges are hot-beds for ragging and the MCI has to set a good example by preventing ragging,” Raghavan told the representatives of the council who attended the meeting.
Though the incidents of ragging have significantly declined over the years, the menace continues to exist in country’s higher educational institutions, particularly in medical and engineering colleges.
As many as 42 cases of ragging were reported from various medical colleges from July to December in 2014 while the 2015 has witnessed 25 such complaints till June so far. One of the worst incidents of ragging was reported from the RIMS, Ranchi in January this year.
At its 17th meeting here recently, the anti-ragging monitoring committee noted that the medical colleges were the “hot-beds” for ragging of students in the country but the MCI was yet to set up an anti-ragging cell for receiving complaints from the students and facilitating their prompt redressal, official sources told Deccan Herald.
The committee, headed by former chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) R K Raghavan, asked the MCI to set up a dedicated anti-ragging cell to deal with complaint of students even as the council insisted that all grievances of students were being taken care of through a grievance redressal cell.
The monitoring committee rejected the council’s counter argument over setting up of a dedicated unit to deal with the cases of ragging, noting that there was a huge difference between an anti-ragging cell and a grievance redressal cell.
It took note of reports of a large number of cases of ragging in various medical colleges including the one case of “mass ragging” of students at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi of Jharkhand in January this year, saying “no concrete action” had been taken by the council in these cases including those reported in the past.
“Medical colleges are hot-beds for ragging and the MCI has to set a good example by preventing ragging,” Raghavan told the representatives of the council who attended the meeting.
Though the incidents of ragging have significantly declined over the years, the menace continues to exist in country’s higher educational institutions, particularly in medical and engineering colleges.
As many as 42 cases of ragging were reported from various medical colleges from July to December in 2014 while the 2015 has witnessed 25 such complaints till June so far. One of the worst incidents of ragging was reported from the RIMS, Ranchi in January this year.
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