Introduction

The 21^st century world is a galaxy of advancement and innovation where even the space can be encapsulated in seconds,where a work which takes 3 days to be completed can be completed in 3 seconds and where the destruction of planet can be done and prevented too by just a press of button. We have multifaceted advancement which has made the world a global village and made the global life very simple. But these lifestyle has not only influenced our living or related issues,but have also been much effective in influencing the mentality and inner being of a person and there are bi-faceted. On the positive way,we have become more logical,innovative and possess a more reasonable and scientific mind with which even a 3 year old boy can judge his action and on the contrary many global problem like terrorism,poverty,population increase,Explosions had spread out like wild fire. One such Problem is Ragging which is mainly concerned with student circle.

What Is Ragging?

Firstly we should know what is ragging? Ragging is a form of abuse on newcomers to educational institutions in India and Sri Lanka. It is similar to the American phenomenon known as hazing. Ragging is a practice which is growing in colleges & institutes of higher studies where a student or a person is brutally tortured either mentally or physically by their seniors. No doubt it is an inhuman practice more dreadful than “SATI DAH”. But alarmingly the practice & its consequences are growing up day by day,where the sufferer is not only physically beaten but above all,beaten to the soul and mind which is more dreadful than death.

What are its causes ?

One major reason behind the spreading out of this menace is the lack of moral values,especially among the youngsters. This lacking remains a black mark on a person's soul and mentality. They do not know how to act with other fellows like them. In places of higher education,especially where ragging is most prevalent,the senior student try to impose and show off their superiority over the junior ones..Inhuman acts and tortures are being inflicted on the poor sufferers of the menace. They are even made to play with their life. The act is more humiliating among boys than among girls. But ragging marks no discrimination with gender or caste. It is a matter of fun for the imposer to see the victim standing naked in front of the mob or to see him jumping from the 2^nd or even 4^th floor ,to see him eating black shoe polish in front of a mob. The victim thus prefers to close his eyes than to fall prey to these devilish hunters. Since it is fun for all the seniors so it cannot have any particular cause,it is simply an entertainment for the seniors.

Millions of student every year try to get selected in the best institutes but they don't know that it's a hell awaiting them. As soon as admission to technical and non-technical institutes starts, news of suicides starts pouring in from all parts of the country.To our amazement,it has become a nightmare so devilish that youth find more peace in death and they commit “SUICIDE”. But that is no matter at all,for who they are incorrigible can never be cured as “a snake which never forgets to bite even though fed with the costliest milk”.Ragging & their consequence have become the foremost headlines of newspapers these days.Every other day we come across news about suicide,missing and depression from every reputed institutes like IIT's,Medical Colleges,Engineering Colleges etc etc.

Even though we have a great deal about the fact ,still the menace grows.We criticise the authorities and government for having failed in taking appropriate action against such happening,without noticing that the four fingers pointing ourselves.To the utmost shameful act,frankly speaking many students are sexually tormented too and we the mere starers just click our tongue for a while and then forget about everything. And boldly speaking this is a new mentality where a mob gathers just to see a man being beaten up with out a reason.No one just even steps a toe to save such a life.When this is the mentality,do we deserve to be called responsible students?

What constitutes ragging?

Theoretically speaking, Ragging is defined as –“ the doing of any act which causes, or is likely to cause any physical, psychological or physiological harm of apprehension or shame or embarrassment to a student”, and includes–

(a) “Teasing or abusing by playing Practical joke on, or causing hurt to any student. “

b)” Asking any student to do any act which such student will not in the ordinary

course do and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame,

or torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche

of such fresher or any other student.”

c) “Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular

academic activity of any other student or a fresher.”

d) “Exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the

academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.”

e) “Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or

any other student by students.”

f) “Any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual

assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures, causing bodily

harm or any other danger to health or person. “

g) “Any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, posts, public insults which would

also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from

actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other

student. “

h)” Any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any

other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing

off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other

student. “

Death due to Ragging

Ragging have become a daliy herald,following is the list of stuednts died due to ragging and hazing around the world:-

2010

1) Nagedra AV, 25, was found dead in Chandigarh's prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research on 19 April. The doctor had joined this post-graduate institution just two months ago. The police said he jumped to death from the hostel building, his father said he had been pushed. His father said a day ago he had said he was finding it difficult to continue there due to ragging.

2) Sinmoi Debroy, 21, was found hanging from the ceiling fan, dead, in his hostel room in Chennai on 4 April. It was a private hostel shared by students of various colleges. Most of the 42 SMSes in the Assamese engineering student's mobile phone were threats and abuses from seniors, who also demanded money.

3)Ajub Ajith, 19, hanged himself to death from the ceiling fan in his house in Thiruvananathapuram on 31 March. He was a student of at the Sarabhai Institute of Science and Technology. He had told his mother that he was being ragged badly, but prevented her from complaining to the principal as, he said, that would make matters worse for him.

4)Satwinder Kumar, 28, ended his life on 3 March. He was a student of the Advanced Training Institute, Mumbai. In his suicide note he named seven seniors who had ragged him so much that he left for home for Kurukshetra rather than take mid-term exams. Before he could reach home, he committed suicide by throwing himself before a goods train in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district.

5)Premlatha, 22, committed suicide by consuming sulphuric acid in the chemistry lab of the B S Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College on 5 February. Her brother singled out one senior, Yogesh, 22, a fourth year student, as the person ragging her the most.

6)Gaurav Sadanand Raut, 22, strangulated himself to death on 9 February in his hostel room in Nashik's Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj Medical College. His father named his roommates Mandhar Monde and Anil Kavade as the culprits.Although the police detained four students, the local NCP MLA, Vasant Pawar, also the general secretary of the college body, denied that the student had been ragged.

2009

7)On 7 March, Aman Kachroo, 19, a first year student of Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical College, Tanda, Kangra, HP, India, had repeatedly complained to his parents about the brutal ragging that took place on the Medical College campus — often by completely drunk third-year students. On Friday night and Saturday morning (March 6–7, 2009), the boy was beaten so badly that he died of brain haemorrhage.

2008

8)In September-December, 2008, a student of Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad was ragged by 3 of his seniors, namely, Ravi Shankar, a resident of Vadodara; Naveen Tomar, from Hisar; and Ajmer resident P C Gupta. The victim (name withheld) complained that three fellow management students at IMT-Ghaziabad forced him to undress and threw lit matchsticks at his private parts in the campus on September 27. The Ghaziabad police initially refused to register his complaint, but finally lodged a case on Thursday (December 4) after intervention from the Ghaziabad SSP.

2007

9)On 18 September Durgesh Shukla hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room in Pioneer College, Bhopal. He blamed seniors in his suicide note.

10)On 8 August Manjot Singh, an MBBS student, committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance. He did so at his residence in Chandigarh, due to ragging in his hostel at the Government Medical College, Chandigarh.

11')On 20 September Chetan Raj, 18, committed suicide in Mysore. His body was found hanging from the roof of his lodge room. He had already complained to his parents that he was being ragged in his college.

2006

12)In November S. P. Manoj committed suicide in his hostel room at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.

13)On 5 November Azad Nair, 22, a cadet at the Officer's Training Academy(OTA) in Chennai. He had hanged himself from the fan of his room. Prior to his suicide he had told his brother Soumendu over telephone that he was being ragged and humiliated at the OTA and he had pleaded to his father Padmanabhan Nair to rescue him from the OTA.

2005

14)On 14 December C Abraham, a first year engineering student, hanged himself to death at his residence in Hyderabad. In his suicide note, he mentioned that he was not interested in studies. His parents suspected that his suicide to be a result of ragging.

15)On 5 December Sridhar, 18, hanged himself to the ceiling fan in his hostel room in Chennai. In the English press, only one newspaper in Mumbai reported the incident.

16)On 11 October Amit Sahai committed suicide by jumping before an approaching train in Jalandhar. He was a student of NIT Jalandhar, Punjab. In his suicide note he blamed nine senior students of the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar for having mercilessly ragged him.

17)In July Kamlesh Sarkar, 19, committed suicide in a private hotel management institute in Kalyani, Nadia district, West Bengal. The police filed an unnatural death case and not one of ragging.

2004

18)On 19 December Mohan Karthik Tripathy,19, hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room at the SKR Engineering College in Tambaram, Tamil Nadu. His written complaint about ragging to the college authorities had gone unheeded. He had been forced to bathe in his own urine.

19)In June, Sushil Kumar Pandey, 18, hanged himself to death after the humiliation of being paraded naked by his seniors at the Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

2002

20)In September Anup Kumar, 19, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his residence in Kanpur. In his suicide note, Anup said that he was going through mental agony due to the sexual harassment by second-year students of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, in the name of ragging.

1984

21)On the night of September 13th/14th, 1984, TK Chidambaram Raju Iyer, 22 years old, was killed by his seniors at the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. He was ragged by 4 senior students (Ashok Kapadia, Ajay Batra, Sujit Gopal, and Rajnish Jain), who remain scot-free to this day. Also, no action was taken against the Director of IMT, Ghaziabad or the warden of the hostel. Unless strict criminal proceedings are carried out against such people, the menace of ragging will continue to haunt India.

It proves that Ragging is not a new phenomenon in India,it has a dark history that dates back long ago.This article only proves that how so many people became the daily meal of this devil.And yet the government remained silent for so many years.Is it necessary that a tragic event has to occur to wake up the government?

*The actual data can vary.It  be far more dreadful and long(in terms of list of names) than the data provided.

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Interviews of Experts

Interviews of experts

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In order to get the opinion about ragging from those colleges and universities where ragging is dominant( mainly medical and engineering colleges). We took the interview of Mr. Tapas Ray , lecturer of Behrampore Medical College.

Q. Sir what is your opinion about Ragging?

Ans:- Ragging is Characterized by violent forceful activity by 2^nd or 3^rd year students on 1^st year

students. It's a brutal torture on the freshers.

Q. Do you think Ragging helps in breaking the shyness of the students?

Ans:- No, I don’t think Ragging helps in breaking the shyness of the students

Q. If you were the authority then what steps you would have taken against Ragging.

Ans:- a) I would have launched an awareness campaign first.

b) I would have formed a 3 member committee against ragging. In this committee college

principle,teacher representative,1^st year student and hostel superintendent would have been

the members.

c) I would have kept constant monitoring whether any incidence occurs in the college campus/hostel.

d) I would have taken strong action if ragging happened.

Q. What advice you would like to give to a person showing depression and suicidal tendency

and what measure should be taken to stop the suicides of these students.?

Ans:- Life is a struggle ,its all about fighting at every point. Don’t waste this life by killing yourself.

Measures to be taken to stop the suicides of students:-

a)Constant mental and psychological support.

b)If the depression is severe then admit the student in mental hospital and treat accordingly.

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To get the experts Comment ,we also took the interview of our Principal Sir as he is an intelligent man and has a better sense and experience of life and people.

Q.1 Sir what is your opinion about Ragging?

Ans. Ragging in no form is good,Ragging in the older days was taken in different and positive way. It

was a mode of introduction. The purpose was to bring the freshers to the mainstream. It was for fun

.Over the year it has changed because of negativity.

Q.2 Do you think that Ragging helps in breaking the shyness of the Raggers?

Ans. Yes it really does,but not now .it used to be. It should be positive and not reactive,it should be

proactive,it should be acceptable and up to a limit. Ragging is good up to the extent of acceptance.

Q.3 Have you ever experienced Ragging in your College Days?

Ans. No ,fortunately because I never attended any technical college although it was there in general

colleges. It was very rare and not so severe.

Q.4 What kind of Ragging it Was?If no then if something like that would have happened with

you that time then what would have been your reaction?

Ans. Definitely I would have reacted but its difficult to say how as I never experienced it.

Q.5 If you were the official authorities then what steps you would have taken?

Ans. I would have tried to take control in the beginning and would have taken precaution. If even after

that things are uncontrollable then I would have involved the Police or rusticated the students.

Q.6 What according to you is the main reason behind Ragging and does it have any outcome?

Ans.(1) Student don't understand the meaning of Ragging

(2)Students have developed negative attitude,

(3)Some people join it for sadistic pleasure,sadism is a mental disease.

(4)Some time students take drug and alcohol and then do

these things called Ragging without having control over their body and mind.

Q.7 If something like Ragging happens with your near and dear one then what advice you would like to give him/her?

Ans. If students are not crossing their limit and ragging just for fun in a positive way then I would

advice him/her to adapt it. If its severe then report it to parents as well as college authorities.

Q.8 If someone is suffering from depression due to ragging or showing suicidal tendency then what steps should be taken?

Ans. All moral as well as legal support should be extended which will result in confidence building.

Q.9 Do you think its good to publish news of Ragging in print and Digital Media?

Ans I don't say its wrong but just for awareness,the role of media is to expose the cruelty and truth. Its

not their role to judge. There’s nothing wrong but media should not project them as heroes or

idolize them or present them as criminals.

* due to shortage of time we could only ask some basic but important question from Mr. Tapas Ray.

Survey Results and response analysis

                                                                (Only top 5 answers)

1. What is your opinion about Ragging(hazing)?

Ans :- a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com :- At some extent it should be continued, but Ragging shouldn't include abusing and beating juniors. Ragging should be neat and clean and transparent to the college and anti-ragging committee of the college.

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com :-there should be no ragging. Freshers are responsible for these ragging phenomenon to continue!!

c)riyam44@gmail.com :- heinous

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com :-it's fun bt it hurts the emotions of people,destroys da confidence and stuff like dat.

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com :- it should be condemend

2. Do you think that ragging helps in breaking the shyness of the freshers?

Ans :-a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com:- No way... How can ragging lead to increase in self confidence? Imagine entering a new place all alone with no friends there. All of a sudden people start picking on you and ask you to do disgraceful things. Will that increase your self confidence? Infact ragging helps in breaking the confidence of freshers.

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com :-no,not at all. It can be done by simply talking with them,even cracking jokes on them.thats d limit of ragging. shyness is just a matter of time.It will take time.And not all of them are shy.

c)riyam44@gmail.com :-definately not..it rather increases psychological differences between students.

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com :-no it makes people more shy and nervous!

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com :-no

3. Have you ever been ragged or hazed?

Ans :- a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com:- No

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com :- No

Other (please specify) - No,our college is very friendly.We,freshers,mix up very well with the seniors .They try to help us in everyway.

c)riyam44@gmail.com :-No

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com :- no

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com :- yes

4. If yes then what Kind of Ragging it was?

Ans :- a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com:- No Response

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com :-No response

c)riyam44@gmail.com :-No response

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com :-no response

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com :-seniors take introduction in hostile way

5. If you are someone below 18 year studying in class 12 or less then say what steps you will take in advance to cope up with this menance?

Ans :- a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com:- i'll face the situations very positively... and will take the action against them.

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com :-No Response

c)riyam44@gmail.com :-no response

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com :-i'll complain or take no notice of them or do the same with them.

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com :- avoid arguments and ragging both witfully and Quietly, patiently, safely and respectfully.

6. What steps a Fresher should take when ragged?

Ans :-a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com:- Inform the authority for Strict action

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com :-Raise question

Form a close group and stick together!!!Fight back!! Never fear seniors!!they will **** u up otherwise!!

c)riyam44@gmail.com :- Inform the authority for Strict action

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com :-Inform the authority for Strict action

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com :-Inform the authority for Strict action

7. If you are being brutally ragged continuously then what steps you will take against those raggers ?

Ans :-a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com:- Inform the authority for Strict action

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com :-report FIR. report to the authorities. issue a case against the university and those guys!!

c)riyam44@gmail.com :- i'll stand up and fight back!!! give dem back wat dey truly deserve!!!

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com :-if it's too serious we'll have to got to police......bt we should warn them 1^st

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com :-report POLICE

8. What is your message to all those who commit suicide due to ragging?

Ans :-a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com:- i would like to say to all those who commit suicide due to ragging plz stop commiting suicide and face all the situations related with ragging and save our beautiful young generation.. your live and your fight against ragging will help to save our youngsters.. plz don't commit suicide due to any reason. Life is too beautiful and live it happily for yourself and for your parents...

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com :- These things happens.we cannot kill ourselves just because somebody is bullying us.I think they were too weak.Life is always a challenge in every step!!

c)riyam44@gmail.com :-guys...why give up your life for others' an hour of fun?

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com :-please!do not do these......people all over the world will support u if u want to!!but don't commit a suicide.....

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com :-fighting against wrong is the first lesson and exam we have to undergo at same time when we enter a new college

9. If you were the authority of a college or university,what steps you would have taken if someone complains you of ragging?

Ans :- a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com:- There must be one team of senior n experience teachers who will look after the college activities. If they find any student indulged in unethical work or ragging should be immediately rusticated for 1 or 2 yrs. In this period that student shud not be allowed to take exams. nor he should be allowed to take part in any college activities...So that the other students will take lesson from it...Some students under pressure or fear of getting humiliated from seniors don't plucked up courage to complain against seniors. In such situation it is very necessary for the teachers to make some facility where students will contact them via mail. One of the safest way to protest.

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com :- Throw them out of my university and take legal actions against him/her.

c)riyam44@gmail.com :- strictly recomended 2 moral value classes!!!!

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com :-i woud warn them,complain abt dis to their parents then i would rusticate them....

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com :-parents of raggers to be informed and warned about suspension of their child

10. Do provide us with your email ID,We will publish your post if got selected.

Ans :- a)sanjuna.fun@gmail.com

b) lahiri2moy@gmail.com

c)riyam44@gmail.com

d)musicmad98@yahoo.com

e)jshrivastava.kvsatna@think.com

On the basis of this survey we can conclude that most of the people around the globe wants to put this phenomenon to an end.People do agree with us that Ragging is actually a brutal torture on freshers.Ragging is good up to a limit ,it should be taken sportingly when its under contol but when it is beyond limit then it should be abandoned.Ragging never helps in breaking the shyness of the freshers rather it destroys the confidence and makes the person mentally ill and depressed.Most of the people want to take strict action against the raggers and wants the higher authorities to rusticate those raggers.Hence it is proved that ragging nevertheless does good to anyone rather it is a devilish phenomenon.

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Steps Taken By Governament

After the Death of Aman Kachru in Himachal Pradesh in a Medical College ,the Government started taking “its so called” Action.The government Introduced the Raghavan's commission .Based on the Raghavan Committee recommendations, the Supreme Court directed the University Grants Commission to fund a toll-free helpline for students in distress.The helpline (1800-180-5522) was launched by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal. Another number, 155222, will be functional within three months. Students, parents and guardians can file complaints also via the Internet on helpline@antiragging.net.

How the Toll free no. Work?

The call centre is located in Delhi and the professionals manning it will respond to calls in English, Hindi and a selected regional language with a call recording system. When the complaint is registered, the caller will be given a unique number.

Within 15 minutes, the complaint will automatically be sent to the authorities concerned. But the identity of the caller will be protected.The unique number can be used as a reference for all future communication and feedback.

To ensure accountability

Once the grievance has been received by the institution, an officer concerned will look into the merit of the complaint and forward it for action. The matter will be tracked until necessary action is taken.

Reminder

If the complaint is not acted upon within a specified time, senior officers will get a reminder either by email or on the phone.The reminders will go up to the institutional as well as executive level, if required, to ensure accountability.

After necessary action is taken, the student will get a call or email confirmation containing details of his or her complaint and action taken.

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Steps to be taken against Ragging

Our Solution

As we all know that "if the roots of a tree r good and if they are in great contact with the soil then it can withstand even the toughest calamities like flood". So for a student's overall betterment it's necessary that his base should be good.

Steps to be taken by the parents from the birth onward

It is well said that we can give whatever shape we want to a wet soil. Similarly a person's childhood is the most important part of his life when he starts learning life,when he starts discovering the world from his point of view. At this time it is the sole responsibility of the parents to show them the right path and give them the perfect shape. Following are the few steps which a parent must follow from the very beginning of the life of their ward.

• The parent must try to inculcate good habits into their ward.
• they must tell them Doha’s of Kabir,Rahim,Rashkhan in an easy way and must try inculcate those saying literally.
• they must tell them the stories of Indian saints and their saying which will increase their knowledge about Indian history as well as grow positive thinking.
• As the child grows ,the parents must keep an eye on the kind of Children with whom their ward is playing and doing friendship.
• If their ward is playing with bad children(who have bad habits or can be bad for other children) then they must tell their ward to stop playing with them .
• Parents must try to inculcate good feelings like “Love for other”,”Kindness”,”Mercy” into their ward.
• It is really very hard to take out time for their wards for working parents but they must know that their child and his/her future is their top priority.
• Even if it is too difficult then also it is recommended that parents must sit with their ward at least for once in an entire day and discuss their problems.

All these steps will have an adverse effect on the child and his/her future as this will grow positive thinking in them.

Steps to be taken by the Schools

A school life is very very important and essential for a child and his future. So it is also the responsibility of the school and the teachers to grow good behavior,thinking and mentality into the students.

• A teacher must be extra careful if she is teaching primary classes as its the time when a child's mentality grows the most.
• When the child reaches his teenager life ,the teacher should have a friendly relation with the students.
• Power point presentations on Life skills should be shown by the teachers at least twice a weak as it will grow positive thinking and moral values like truth,peace, love etc.
• Children Films like “Taare Zamin Par” and “Salaam Bachche “ should be shown time to time.
• When the child is fully grown that is he is in class 11 or 12,at that time he must be given extra classes on moral value and positive thinking.
• School must arrange extra classes for student of 11-12 to be taken by various organizations like Brahma Kumari,Sahaj Yoga etc.
• The school must try to enroll students in various courses like “Art of Living” founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar etc.
• The school must also arrange extra classes to be taken by Anti Ragging Squad.

As Colleges and Universities are places of higher educations so it is difficult for them to arrange classes on moral value. The Institutes can only take precautions such that Ragging does not occur.

These are the few steps which should be taken by the institutes and the students to eradicate this menace.

Steps to be taken by Institutes

• Rules are already made by the government now it is the duty of the colleges and institutes to supervise these rules. The colleges/Universities must set up a supervising committee to look after the implementation of Raghavan's committee.
• It will be the duty of the supervising committee to inspect the classes and hostels time to time and strict action to be taken if someone caught red handed.
• The college/University campus should be fitted with hidden video cameras so that strict supervision can be kept in the corridors and classes.
• The college must seek the assistance of professional counselors at the time of admissions to counsel ‘freshers’ in order to prepare them for the life ahead, particularly for adjusting to the life in hostels. At the commencement of the academic session the Head of the technical Institution, University shall convene and address a meeting of various functionaries/agencies, like Wardens, representatives of students, parents/guardians, faculty, district administration including police, to discuss the measures to be taken to prevent ragging and steps to be taken to identify the offenders and punish them suitably.
• The Anti ragging help line phone numbers must be printed out and given to each and every student as well as pasted on the walls.
• Each batch of freshers should be divided into small groups and each such group shall be assigned to a member of staff. Such staff member should interact individually with each member of the group on daily basis to discuss the problems/difficulties, if any faced by the freshers in the Institution and extend necessary help.
• The 1^st year and 2^nd year hostels must be separated completely and no seniors shall be allowed to enter the hostel without permission.
• The principal must select a student representative who will represent the 1^st year student in front of the principal and will discuss the problems.
• If someone is found ragging then he/she shall be immediately rusticated .

Steps to be taken by Parents

• The parents must seek the help of a counselor before admitting their wards to tell them how to cope up with Hostel Life
• Parents should visit their wards from time to time.
• If their ward is suffering from suicidal tendency or depression then he'she should be immediately taken under custody of a Phsycatrist or Counselor.
• The parent must visit the supervising committee and discuss with them if their ward is facing some difficulty.

Steps to be taken by Student themselves

• It is the soul responsibility of the student themselves to raise their voice against ragging. Ragging is something which is not at all tolerable.
• If someone has been ragged then he or she must immediately contact the anti ragging squad and the higher authorities of the institutes.
• They must know that Suicide is not the ultimate way and must face the problem with courage

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Our Inspiration

We Really wanted to do something against Ragging and what's the best way to express our views except the think quest International competition which provided us ample opportunities to create something good and to do something good for the country. Ragging was one of those problems which is so far not very much highlighted by the country and it is not that much open to international world. Our entire group was shocked when we researched about the topic in the internet and we found so many people died because of this evil and its history which dates back more than a decade and this was the time when our heart was filled with anger against those raggers and sorrow for those who died and it was the time when we decided to take this movement to a new level by enrolling our team to the think quest international contest.

Our Action Plan

Our first major task was to select a coach and get ourselves enrolled. Not many teachers of our school are aware of this competition so we took this upon us to tell every teacher about this to get more and more students to help us. At this time of dilemma, Mrs. S Guha madam came to our rescue,when we told her about our idea,she was extremely excited,She not only got us enrolled but also gave us lots of information about this competition and our topic. She gave us lots of information about how to organize a group and to complete the project step by step. We chose the digital media event as our competition ground. As we were scrolling down the pages we came across the various software’s that we can use to do this project. Our group then decided to write blog as it is simple,cheap and effective. Our aim was to make a project which is simple,written in easy language as well as be very effective. We at first decided to prepare a document before uploading every thing in the blog. We wrote everything on a paper which we needed to make a good project and that includes:

• Essay(definition,causes,constitutes,solution)
• Interviews
• Surveys
• Posters

Since ragging is a phenomenon of brutal torture on first year student by the second year without any reason so the pictures included can be visually very offensive and sexually explicit  so we dropped that idea rather we decided to use Posters. Then we downloaded the Team Roster Worksheet and wrote everything that was needed. After assigning the work by our leader in the group,we started working on our project. Road map to success tutorial survey was the first thing we completed as it gained us extra points.

When the document was completed we got it corrected by our school English Teacher S. Pal madam. She was very helpful and enthusiastic from the beginning. She corrected it carefully so that there are no grammatical or spelling mistake in the document. After the document was corrected we carefully edited the mistakes and made the real project. After doing that we arranged our documents in a sequence When the document was completed we got it reviewed by many teachers. We collected their feed backs ,omitted our project again and at last when everything was okay ,we pasted all into our blog and then we submitted the project.

Our Research

The essay is completely self written,it is not just copied and pasted ,but some of the technical terms are taken from various websites as they cannot be self written. Our next step was interview. So we decided to take three interviews. Since Ragging is most dominant in Engineering and Medical colleges so we decided to take interviews from the professors of Engineering and Medical college. It was a very hectic and hard job in front of us. But finally we managed to get the interview from the professor. Unfortunately we were able to take only one interview,we could not arrange for a interview from professors of engineering colleges. Along with this interview .We also took interview of our school Principal Sir to get his opinion on ragging. After completing the interviews it was our responsibility to get the opinions of people around the globe. For that we started an online survey in the surveymonkey.com..We tried our best to spread this survey through out the globe and attract peoples to take this survey. This was the most challenging job in front of us. We started educating and telling people about this survey through many social networking sites. And at last we were successful to pull over people around the globe and take this survey. When the survey was done,we selected the best 5 answers which we decided to post on our site.

In order to take our movement one step ahead we also wrote a skit which we performed at the school stage at the skit competition which got overwhelming response from the audience and giving us the first position in the competition.

Our next step was to draw posters,so we collected lots of innovative ideas after a lengthy discussion with the teammates and coach. We then drew a rough sketch of the poster and banners before making the final one. And then we drew the final sketch and got it corrected by our coach.

After all this the skeleton of our blog was ready and we just needed to arrange it accordingly and paste it on the web.

Q. What will be its effect?

Ans:- our project will create an adverse effect on the student who are preparing for their

medical/engineering entrance examination as well as on the parents,school going

students,school principals,teachers,concerned authorities(who are given the task to stop this

menace) and most importantly common people. It will educate them more about this devilish

phenomenon and will also provide them the instructions they should follow if ragged or what

precautions they should take.

Q. What Knowledge we gained?

Ans:- We had lots of fun while creating the project. Our work began with the collection of materials

from the internet. While doing so we came to know more about this phenomenon. When we saw

the list of students died due to this menace our heart was filled with sorrow for those intelligent

minds. While writing the solution we have to think from the point of view of a principal,a parent

and a student .It provided us with more mature thinking and will help us a lot in our long run in

the future.

Citation

1.Our 1st page which comprises of the introduction is completely self made and original.

2.Our 2nd page that is”What is Ragging?” is also self made and completely original

3.Our 3rd page which includes the causes of ragging is also original and self made.

4.Our 4th page which includes”What constitutes Ragging?” is taken

from :-http://www.svimi.org/AdmissionForm/WhatconstitutesRagging.pdf

5.Our 5th page page lists the death of no. of students due to ragging is taken from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragging_in_India

6.Our 10th page which exposes the steps taken by government is taken

from :-http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/21/stories/2009062155781800.htm

7.Our 12th  page is the solution of the problem we are dealing wth is completely origianl and self made.

8.The intervies and surveys provided are 100% true and our sole property.

9.Posters and banners are made using Ms Paint .

10.We have taken only those articles from other website which can never be self made

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