Panel to probe defunct RBI unit's functioning

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 VADODARA: The syndicate members of M S University (MSU) on Friday constituted a four-member committee to probe the functioning of Reserve Bank of India's Endowment Unit in the last 10 years. The committee has been asked to submit its report within six weeks.

 The decision comes in the wake of embarrassment that the university faced last week after country's apex bank dragged the state university to an Ahmedabad court by filing a civil suit demanding recovery of Rs 97,63,000 for not appointing a RBI chair professor at the Department of Banking and Insurance in the Faculty of Commerce even as it had received Rs 50 lakh as corpus fund in 2002.

 While MSU vice-chancellor professor Yogesh Singh had already decided on Thursday that the university will stop all the expenses of the defunct RBI Endowment Unit and the Rs 10,000 per month that university's deputy registrar M M Beedkar was drawing as remuneration over and above his own salary from the defunct unit, the syndicate's decision will now create way for a detailed inquiry on mismanagement of the unit.

The four members of the committee are professor Ranjan Aiyer (convener), professor Aarti Nanavati, K S Agrawal and Tushar Vyas. During their meeting the members also cleared a proposal of signing MoU between university's Department of Archaeology and Ancient History and US-based Stone Age Institute subject to permission from Gujarat government. The syndicate members have given their approval for allocating land at Maharaja Pratapsinhrao Gaekwad Parisar (Donor's Plaza ground) for constructions of buildings of Department of Pharmacy and Institute of Policy Research and International Studies.

Proposals of research projects of Department of Biochemistry and Department of Applied Chemistry were approved by the syndicate members. Also, the members have decided to continue services of retired employees - P N Srivastava and Ashok Pandya - at the university press - for a period of another six months as a special case. MSU's syndicate members have regretted a request made by city-based Navrachana University for refund of the fees that the latter had paid for issue of no objection certificate for running courses in MSU's jurisdiction. 

BOX: Second committee to probe ragging allegations against teacher Vadodara: Another committee was formed to probe the allegations against a teacher, who is accused of ragging a first year student. After a first year student of Department of Architecture at Faculty of Technology and Engineering alleged last month that a teacher - Mayur Gupta - along with a group of senior students was involved in his ragging, MSU had formed a committee under professor R G Kothari to investigate the teacher's role. The Kothari committee, however, absolved the teacher for want of evidence.

The committee's report states that although the teacher might have used language that might have hurt somebody, there is no evidence of his involvement in the ragging episode. On Friday, the report was tabled before the syndicate members. The syndicate members, however, formed a three-member committee comprising Tushar Vyas, Dr Kamal Shah and Dr Hemant Mathur to further investigate Gupta's role.

AP: Nursing student attempts suicide

http://zeenews.india.com/news/andhra-pradesh/ap-nursing-student-attempts-suicide_813475.html Rajahmundry: An 18-year-old girl, studying at a nursing institute in Kakinada in East Godvari district, allegedly tried to commit suicide because of harassment by senior students, police said. The girl, who hailed from Ganti village, was studying at Karuna School of Nursing and staying at the hostel in the college premises. Whenever her parents called on the hostel's landline, senior students did not give her message, police said. This led to the girl attempting suicide by hanging herself from ceiling of her room on November 25. Her roommates intervened in time to save her. Parents have lodged a police complaint but nobody has been arrested yet. Recently, three students of Godavari Institute of Engineering and Technology at Rajanagaram in Rajahmundry were arrested for ragging.

Four engineering students injured during ragging

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/wire-news/four-engineering-students-injured-during-ragging_789504.html Mathura, Dec 1 (PTI) Four students were seriously injured when an altercation broke out between them and their seniors at an engineering college over an alleged ragging incident here in the district, police said. On Thursday night, some senior students of BSA Engineering college here tried to rag their juniors. Following which an altercation broke out which soon turned violent injuring four junior students. The college warden reached the spot on time and the situation was brought under control, college registrar Bhagwan Das said. Six senior students have been expelled from the hostel, he said. The college discipline committee will take appropriate action in the incident, he said. PTI CORR PY RCJ

Seven SRFTI students suspended for ragging

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Kolkata, Dec 1, 2012 (PTI)

Seven students have been suspended from the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) here on the charge of ragging. "The SRFTI director informed me today that seven students have been suspended on account of ragging," Dipankar Dey, actor and chairman of the governing council of the institute said. He said that he supported the action taken by the institute as ragging is illegal.

Registrar of SRFTI, Dipankar Mukherjee said that he had received complaints of ragging from two girl students against seven seniors and action has been taken against them.

Medical college students booked for ragging

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KADAPA (AP): Seven students of a private medical college were booked today on the charge of ragging their juniors, police said. A group of seven students studying MBBS third-year allegedly ragged about five of their juniors on November 22 outside college premises by asking them to remove their shirts, they said.

Following a complaint, Kadapa II Town police registered a case against seven students under the Anti-ragging Act. However, no one has been arrested so far, a senior police officer told PTI.

Three students held for ragging in Andhra Pradesh

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Rajahmundry (Andhra Pradesh): Three engineering students have been arrested for allegedly ragging a junior in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, police said on Friday. A B.Tech first year student of Godavari Institute of Engineering and Technology (GIET) college at Rajanagaram in Rajahmundry city was allegedly ragged by his seniors last week, Deputy Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar said on Friday.

When he refused to follow their orders, the boy was allegedly attacked by eight senior students. On November 14, when the victim was returning to his home, the eight senior boys allegedly took him to a secluded place and beat him severely.

They also allegedly snatched his cellphone, watch and other items, police said. On Thursday night, the boy's parents lodged a complaint at the Rajahmundry police station following which three accused - B Chandramoulai, K Balachandramouli and B Sunnykrishna - were arrested. The other five accused were at large and search was on to nab them. A case under Andhra Pradesh Prohibition of Ragging Act 1997 has been lodged against the accused, police said.

Medical college rusticates unruly student

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BHUBANESWAR: VSS Medical College and Hospital on Monday rusticated a first-year student for one year for his alleged involvement in an attack on his seniors on Sunday. "We rusticated one of the first-year students for a year for his behaviour, which is unbecoming of a student," said Dr Santosh K Behera, principal.

The decision came after second-year students gheraoed Dr Behera's office on Monday demanding action against the boy, who allegedly masterminded the attack on the sophomores. Around 100 second-year students had gone to Nrusinghnath shrine, around 200 km away from the state-run medical college in Burla, on Sunday.

On their way back, a group of 10-12 persons attacked them between Paikmal and Padampur. "They tried to molest the girls and abuse other students. They also pelted stones at our vehicles," said students' union general secretary Dinesh Prasad Sahu. Nine persons have already been arrested in Bargah district in this connection with the attack, police said. The second-year students said they suspected the boy, a native of Padampur, because some of the attackers had named him.

The college council took the decision after a marathon meeting following the first-year student's confession. However, his family refuted the allegation. "My nephew is not involved in any such attack. I don't know how such misunderstanding happened," said the boy's uncle. Sources said the dispute stems from ragging by seniors in the college. "There is an ongoing tension over ragging. The boy might have been a victim of that," said a student pleading anonymity. But Dr Behera denied any ragging on campus. "The issue had nothing to do with ragging," he said.