Assam govt to check hostels and ask illegal boarders to leave for preventing ragging

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced this considering the recent cases of ragging in some premier educational institutes of the state. He further said that the government will act tough to stop ragging.

Assam govt to check hostels and ask illegal boarders to leave for preventing ragging

Assam government has announced that it will soon launch a drive to find out all the former students who have been staying illegally in the college and university hostels and ask them to leave to prevent ragging. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced this considering the recent cases of ragging in some premier educational institutes of the state. He further said that the government will act tough to stop ragging.

"We will have to take some initiatives to stop the menace of ragging in universities and other academic institutes. The first is to bid farewell to all the former students," he said.

"The government will soon launch a drive so that no former student can stay at the hostels of colleges and universities," Sarma said.  "If we can do that, I believe 60 per cent of ragging cases will stop. The government will take a big initiative on this front," he said.

"If college and university administrations and the police work together, ragging incidents will be controlled," the chief minister asserted.

"For some time, there was no incident of ragging. We all thought that it was finished and probably got a little relaxed. That's why it increased to some extent. We will now strongly control ragging in Assam," he added.

Earlier, this week, one more Dibrugarh University student has been named as an accused in the case where first-semester postgraduate students of the varsity, jumped off the hostel building after allegedly being fed up of being ragged, Dibrugarh Police said.

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