How do you overcome ragging?

Cardinal rule for those who want to avoid ragging: avoid attention. Do not stand out. Be the most inconspicuous and boring person. If you have a goatee, get rid of it.

What are the activities considered as ragging?

Activities Considered as Ragging: Any conduct by words spoken or written or an act which has the effect of teasing, threading or handling with rudeness to a fresher or any other student.

What are the usual motives behind ragging?

Some of the reasons given by students for ragging are they were also ragged by their seniors; sense of superiority; and introduction. Other factors perpetuating ragging are use of alcohol in hostels and lack of implementation of serious anti-ragging measures by college authorities.

What is the punishment for ragging?

Ragging is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and shall also be liable to a fine which may extend to Rs. 10,000 under section 4 of the Act.

Is ragging still happen?

Ragging has become more of a norm than an exception in a number of educational institutes across the country, which has led to lives being shattered and young people being rendered helpless. Some develop mental disorders, some choose to end their lives while many others are also murdered by the force of ragging.

Who was Aman Kachroo?

In 2009, Aman Kachroo, a first-year student at a medical college in Himachal Pradesh was severely and persistently ragged by seniors who were allegedly drunk. On March 7, 2009, his four seniors attacked him so brutally in the boys’ hostel that he was rushed to hospital the next day.

What is called ragging?

Ragging is the term used for the so-called “initiation ritual” practiced in higher education institutions in Indian Subcontinent, including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Ragging involves abuse, humiliation, or harassment of new entrants or junior students by the senior students.

What is anti ragging act?

Any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestured, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person can be put in the category of ragging with criminal dimensions.

What is ragging in English?

Ragging involves abuse, humiliation, or harassment of new entrants or junior students by the senior students. It often takes a malignant form wherein the newcomers may be subjected to psychological or physical torture. Ragging is a subset of bullying.

Who started ragging?

It is widely considered to have been introduced during the post-World War II era. Sri Lankan soldiers returning from war re-entered the college educational system and brought with them the tradition and techniques of military style ragging.

What happened with Aman Kachroo?

Medical student Aman Kachroo died of injuries suffered during ragging by the four drunk seniors in the Rajendra Prasad Medical College and Hospital in Tanda in Kangra district March 8, 2009. Kachroo is monitoring the National Ragging Prevention Programme on behalf of the University Grants Commission.

Is ragging a crime?

Ragging is a criminal offence as per the Supreme Court verdict. An offence of Ragging may be charged either on a written complaint by the affected or on independent finding of the Anti Ragging Squad.