Colleges were instructed to fix surveillance cameras at vantage locations to prevent ragging in campuses and to involve non-governmental organisations and senior students for conduct of awareness programmes, at the recent meeting of District-level Anti-Ragging Committee.
District Collector S. Prabakar, who chaired the meeting attended by college principals, and senior revenue and police officials, advised the colleges to have separate hostels for first-year students, to put up flex boards displaying phone numbers of the members of the college-level anti-ragging committee, and to inform students the provision for conveying ragging-related complaints to administration through toll-free number 1077.
A separate register will be maintained for receiving such complaints. Scroll messages will be screened through local cable television networks and rallies involving students will be conducted at block level for spreading awareness, he said.While advising students affected by ragging and their parents to lose no time in approaching the police station, the Collector instructed the police to register FIRs promptly and to immediately convey the cases to the district administration.
The guidelines of Supreme Court for prevention of ragging must be followed strictly, he said.
