Video clip to build opinion against ragging

New Delhi (PTI): As the new academic session starts bringing along concerns about ragging, a group fighting against the menace is ready with a four-minute video clip to take its message to students.
The video film has been made by three second-year students of Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology here with assistance from Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education (CURE), a non-profit organisation.
CURE, which is working to eliminate ragging since 2001 and has also been a consultant organisation to the Raghavan Committee, staged a presentation of the film in Ramjas College of Delhi University today and is planning to approach more institutions, Harsh Agarwal from CURE said.
The clip, which shows how the dream of a student all geared up for his first day in college is shattered when he was ragged, also gives some horrifying statistics about how ragging led to many deaths, suicides and permanent injuries.
"We received a great response from the around 300 students who gathered for the presentation on Friday. There was a very good interactive session and a performance by the three students -- Baibhav, Abhinav and Raghav who have created the audio-visual clip," Agarwal said.
"We have also approached the Union HRD Ministry, UGC and AICTE, urging them to arrange shows of the anti-ragging video, but their response is still awaited," he said.
In 2006-07, 89 cases of severe ragging have been reported in the country, according to CURE statistics. There were 11 deaths or suicides and five more cases of attempted suicide in the same year. Twenty-one per cent of the total reported cases were of sexual abuse.