PONDA: The Goa Engineering College (GEC) has asked its disciplinary action committee to probe into Friday's incident, where two groups of students got into a tussle in the college premises.
TOI was informed that two groups of students of the Farmagudi-based GEC got into a tussle on Friday. The confrontation was triggered by messages posted on social networking site facebook.
Engineering college authorities have taken a strong note of the incident and have resolved to hand over the matter to the disciplinary committee for further action, said Vivek Kamat, acting principal.
"We have taken note of the incident. It was not an incident of ragging. The students involved in the matter were students of second year and the third year", a member of the anti-ragging committee of the college said, on condition of anonymity.
"If the new admissions to the first year B.E course were the victims, we could have looked into it as an incident of ragging. However, both groups comprise senior students," the member said.
"Ponda police had also summoned eight students allegedly involved in the matter. Police had suspicion that it was a ragging incident, and warned the students," he added.
Kamat, who is also acting director of technical education, has handed over a letter to Ponda police clarifying that the incident is not related to ragging. Kamat, along with members of the anti-ragging committee, also held a meeting with the Ponda police inspector on Saturday. "The meeting has resolved to hand over the issue to the disciplinary action committee to decide. A decision on when this committee will meet, will be taken on Tuesday," the committee member said. tnn
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Friday, August 20, 2010
Six Goa students evicted from hostel for ragging
2010-08-19 17:30:00
Six medical students were evicted from the Goa Medical College hostel, located near Panaji, for ragging, a top official said Thursday.
GMC Medical Superintendent Rajan Kuncolienkar told reporters that the institute's anti-ragging committee had decided to evict six student from the hostel for ragging in the medical college's residential facility.
'The management has also lodged a formal complaint with the local police station. We are acting as per law,' Kuncolienkar said.
The action, he said was taken after junior students complained that they were ragged by the senior medical students in the hostel over a period of time.
The GMC is among Asia's oldest medical colleges.
Six medical students were evicted from the Goa Medical College hostel, located near Panaji, for ragging, a top official said Thursday.
GMC Medical Superintendent Rajan Kuncolienkar told reporters that the institute's anti-ragging committee had decided to evict six student from the hostel for ragging in the medical college's residential facility.
'The management has also lodged a formal complaint with the local police station. We are acting as per law,' Kuncolienkar said.
The action, he said was taken after junior students complained that they were ragged by the senior medical students in the hostel over a period of time.
The GMC is among Asia's oldest medical colleges.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Goa University students allege ragging, seniors cry foul
April 14th, 2009 - 1:03 pm ICT by IANS
masters students of Goa University have accused their seniors of ragging and making vulgar remarks. The second year students have rubbished the allegations, saying that a professor they had accused of sexual harassment has instigated the juniors against them.
In their complaint to university officials, MA Political Science women students have accused the seniors of ragging them over a period of several months. They claimed that the women in the second year made “vulgar remarks” and “humiliated” them.
“A sub committee has already been formed to probe the ragging allegations. it will file its report within 15 days,” Goa University registrar Mohan Sangodkar told IANS Tuesday.
“We have a zero tolerance policy with regard to ragging and will not spare anyone who is involved in the act,” he added.
Sangodkar said that ragging by the second year MA Political Science students was first reported in January and was looked into by the anti-ragging committee, which had suggested that a sub committee be formed to probe the matter thoroughly.
However, the students accused of ragging have claimed that a professor they had complained against to the Goa State Women’s Commission was trying to extract revenge through the juniors.
The second year students had alleged in October last year that a senior professor attached to the political science department was sexually harassing some students.
“The sexual harassment came to light after one of our batch mates blurted out the horror story to us. We complained to the university authorities but to no avail so we told the women’s commission about it. Now the professor has tried to instigate the freshers against us,” one of the second year students told IANS.
While the college authorities have refused to comment on the sexual harassment aspect, the Goa State Women’s Commission has acknowledged receiving an oral complaint from students in October 2008.
“We did hear the students out orally. They complained of sexual harassment and molestation by a professor but we require a written complaint to proceed. The moment we get that an enquiry will be initiated,” said Pramod Salgaokar, chairman of the women’s commission.
masters students of Goa University have accused their seniors of ragging and making vulgar remarks. The second year students have rubbished the allegations, saying that a professor they had accused of sexual harassment has instigated the juniors against them.
In their complaint to university officials, MA Political Science women students have accused the seniors of ragging them over a period of several months. They claimed that the women in the second year made “vulgar remarks” and “humiliated” them.
“A sub committee has already been formed to probe the ragging allegations. it will file its report within 15 days,” Goa University registrar Mohan Sangodkar told IANS Tuesday.
“We have a zero tolerance policy with regard to ragging and will not spare anyone who is involved in the act,” he added.
Sangodkar said that ragging by the second year MA Political Science students was first reported in January and was looked into by the anti-ragging committee, which had suggested that a sub committee be formed to probe the matter thoroughly.
However, the students accused of ragging have claimed that a professor they had complained against to the Goa State Women’s Commission was trying to extract revenge through the juniors.
The second year students had alleged in October last year that a senior professor attached to the political science department was sexually harassing some students.
“The sexual harassment came to light after one of our batch mates blurted out the horror story to us. We complained to the university authorities but to no avail so we told the women’s commission about it. Now the professor has tried to instigate the freshers against us,” one of the second year students told IANS.
While the college authorities have refused to comment on the sexual harassment aspect, the Goa State Women’s Commission has acknowledged receiving an oral complaint from students in October 2008.
“We did hear the students out orally. They complained of sexual harassment and molestation by a professor but we require a written complaint to proceed. The moment we get that an enquiry will be initiated,” said Pramod Salgaokar, chairman of the women’s commission.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Delhi boy opposes ragging at Goa varsity, beaten up
14 Sep 2008, 0547 hrs IST, Gauree Malkarnekar, TNN
PANAJI: Uday Anand, a final year MCA student at Goa University, is living under constant fear from his classmates for asking his juniors to
stand up against ragging. Uday, who joined the three-year MCA course at Goa University in 2006, was assaulted recently.
Soon after he started staying at the men's hostel, some seniors tried to rag Uday, a resident of Delhi. However, he did not give in. "I was the lone person in my batch who resisted ragging. This year, my batchmates and a few former students were ragging freshers, but as I do not approve of it, I told the freshers not to be afraid of me", says Uday.
On July 14, 2008, at around 12.30 am Uday was woken up by heavy banging on his hostel room door. When he opened the door, 12 to 15 persons including his batchmates and two members who were not students of the university entered the room, abused him and demanded to know why he was instigating first-year students against ragging.
Uday alleges that he was then assaulted. "I managed to flee from the spot and called up the warden and the police. The police arrived 30 minutes later and the warden arrived with one of the professors after about 45 minutes". he added.
According to Uday, the head of the department and the warden of the hostel assured him that appropriate action would be taken against the miscreants and was asked not to file a police complaint. In a meeting, the registrar said that a show cause notice would be issued to the miscreants. Uday's batchmates who were said to be involved were individually interrogated by the registrar, the warden and faculty members. Four of them were found to be guilty and an undertaking was taken from them by the registrar that they would not repeat the behaviour.
Uday says, "Nearly 50 days have passed but no measures have been taken to ensure my safety. I am intimidated by some of the classmates on a daily basis. I have moved 4 distinct applications to Goa University and my father has made two applications to the vice-chancellor of Goa University. But to no avail."
But the Goa University registrar, M M Sangodkar, said, "If Uday is claiming that nothing has been done to ensure his security, this is false. A detailed inquiry was conducted in the case and he was even given an option to shift to another block in the men's hostel. But he refused to. We even took an undertaking from the students found guilty saying that they would not repeat the behaviour."
PANAJI: Uday Anand, a final year MCA student at Goa University, is living under constant fear from his classmates for asking his juniors to
stand up against ragging. Uday, who joined the three-year MCA course at Goa University in 2006, was assaulted recently.
Soon after he started staying at the men's hostel, some seniors tried to rag Uday, a resident of Delhi. However, he did not give in. "I was the lone person in my batch who resisted ragging. This year, my batchmates and a few former students were ragging freshers, but as I do not approve of it, I told the freshers not to be afraid of me", says Uday.
On July 14, 2008, at around 12.30 am Uday was woken up by heavy banging on his hostel room door. When he opened the door, 12 to 15 persons including his batchmates and two members who were not students of the university entered the room, abused him and demanded to know why he was instigating first-year students against ragging.
Uday alleges that he was then assaulted. "I managed to flee from the spot and called up the warden and the police. The police arrived 30 minutes later and the warden arrived with one of the professors after about 45 minutes". he added.
According to Uday, the head of the department and the warden of the hostel assured him that appropriate action would be taken against the miscreants and was asked not to file a police complaint. In a meeting, the registrar said that a show cause notice would be issued to the miscreants. Uday's batchmates who were said to be involved were individually interrogated by the registrar, the warden and faculty members. Four of them were found to be guilty and an undertaking was taken from them by the registrar that they would not repeat the behaviour.
Uday says, "Nearly 50 days have passed but no measures have been taken to ensure my safety. I am intimidated by some of the classmates on a daily basis. I have moved 4 distinct applications to Goa University and my father has made two applications to the vice-chancellor of Goa University. But to no avail."
But the Goa University registrar, M M Sangodkar, said, "If Uday is claiming that nothing has been done to ensure his security, this is false. A detailed inquiry was conducted in the case and he was even given an option to shift to another block in the men's hostel. But he refused to. We even took an undertaking from the students found guilty saying that they would not repeat the behaviour."
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
[NavHind Times] Seven bills introduced on first day of budget session
NT Staff Reporter
Panaji, March 24
The government today introduced seven bills including one to contain ragging and to amend various existing acts on the first day of the budget session of the state legislative assembly.
The first bill (the Goa Prohibition of Ragging Bill 2008) introduced today pertained to contain upsurge of harassment (physical and psychological) of junior students by seniors, which lead to their discontinuing the studies. The bill aims at prohibiting ragging in educational institutions.
The second bill (The Goa Town and Country Planning (amendment) Bill 2008) aims at amending Section 16 and 16A of the Goa, Daman and Diu Town and Country Planning Act, 1974, and repeal to ordinance promulgated to that effect.
Through the third bill, The Goa Value Added Tax (third amendment) Bill, 2008, the government has sought to amend various sections of the Goa Value Added Tax Act, 2005, which among other things provide for imposing penalty of Rs 1,000 per quarter on dealers who fail to file returns within the stipulated period.
By the fourth bill (The Goa Buildings (lease, rent and eviction) Control (amendment) Bill, 2008) introduced in the House today, the government has sought to amend Section 23A of the Goa, Daman and Diu Buildings (lease, rent and eviction) Control Act, 1968, by inserting a new sub-section (3B) to protect the property rights of non-resident Indians and enable them to recover possession of their premises for own occupation or that of their family members.
The government also introduced three other bills including the Goa Preservation of Trees (amendment) Bill, 2008, The Goa Electricity Duty (amendment) Bill, 2008 and the Goa Motor Vehicles Tax (amendment) Bill, 2008.
Meanwhile, the House today passed the Goa Appropriation Bill, 2008, for Rs 286 crore. The bill provides for appropriation of sums from and out of the consolidated fund of the state of Goa to meet the expenditure on certain services, granted by the legislative assembly for those services.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
[NavhindTimes] Freshers’ Woes
EDITORIAL
Though belated the government of Goa finally came to realize the need for having an anti-ragging bill. The delay probably owed to the fact that instances of ugly ragging— psychological, social, political, economic, cultural — against the freshers in the educational institutions in Goa so far did not surface. But the fact remains the government preferred to have Goa Prohibition Of Ragging Bill 2007 on the statute book under pressure from the parents and academics to prohibit the practice of ragging.
The provisions of the Bill appear to be tough, but a closer look makes it clear that there are certain loopholes. What should be the criteria for convicting the guilty? Who is to frame the charges leading to conviction? For acting against the culprit it is imperative that a complainant should be there. In this regard the observation of the Raghavan committee is quite interesting. The committee notes: “Almost all the stake-holders have failed to act in curbing the menace of ragging in every State. The State Governments have not monitored if the ragging in their state has been curbed or not. The authorities of the institution have not played a pro-active role, which was very necessary in terms of the guidelines of the apex court, where primary responsibility was cast on the institutional authorities. On the contrary, it was told to the committee that the authorities dissuaded the victims of ragging from making any complaint.”
Prior to its order of 2006, which it issued taking cognizance of ragging as crime, the Supreme Court in fact in 2001 had issued certain guidelines. But those failed to counter the menace, as none was primarily held responsible for ensuring that ragging did not take place. The Supreme Court order (based on the recommendations) of May 16, 2007 makes it obligatory for academic institutions to file official First Information Reports with the police in any instance of a complaint of ragging. This would ensure that all cases would be formally investigated under criminal justice system, and not by the academic institutions own ad-hoc bodies. Any failure on the part of the institutional authority or negligence or deliberate delay in lodging the FIR shall be construed to be an act of culpable negligence. It would be better to incorporate some of the recommendations of the Raghavan committee in the proposed Bill.
It would be appropriate to mention increasing privatisation of higher education is witnessing sustained increase in ragging related excesses. Unfortunately for fear of losing their credibility these institutions do not allow the victim students to report the incidents to the police. According to the Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education at least 25 students have succumbed to the brutalities of ragging in the past seven years. In many cases, complaints by victims have fallen on deaf ears.
Ragging is a perverse and cruel activity and the reason for indulging in this activity is to show off power and authority. It needs to be perceived as a failure to inculcate human values from the schooling stage. Obviously any attempt to curb the menace must have a wider framework. Besides making responsible the academic institutions for tackling the menace, behavioural patterns among students, particularly potential ‘raggers’, need to be identified. The measures must really be deterrent in nature.
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