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First year students will have to be given information regarding ragging. Now all the colleges will also organize seminars on ragging for the students. College students will have to give an affidavit of not doing ragging.
Naiduniya Representative, Indore. University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued new guidelines to stop ragging in colleges. In this mainly students will be made aware. Apart from putting up anti-ragging posters at various places in the college campus, the rules will be pasted on the notice boards of the institutions.
Devi Ahilya University has instructed colleges to form anti-ragging committees within the next one week. Colleges will have to post the list of committee members on the notice board and also send it to the university compulsorily. Anti ragging squad will have to be formed. Information about the ill effects of ragging will have to be given in hostels also.
Side effects of ragging will have to be explained during admission
UGC has given instructions to conduct mandatory induction programs in educational institutions for students taking admission in the first year. Till now we have been talking about the courses and institutions but now we will also be talking about ragging.
Seminar on ragging is necessary
According to the new guidelines, educational institutions have to mandatorily form anti-ragging committees, which will include principals, teachers, administrative officers, social workers and media persons. The list of members and mobile numbers are to be displayed on the notice board. A seminar on ragging has also been organized for the students.
Affidavit will have to be filled
President of Student Welfare Association, Dr. LK Tripathi says that after the start of the session, colleges will also have to fill affidavits from the students, in which they will have to take an oath not to indulge in ragging. Separate wings will have to be made for senior and junior in the hostel also, so that these students can have less communication with each other.
DET: Registration will start for guides in 14 subjects
Devi Ahilya University has started preparation for Doctoral Entrance Test (DET) for getting PhD in technical subject. Registrations will be done for guides in 14 subjects. They have to give information about vacant seats. Professors have been given a week’s time for this. After that the advertisement for PhD entrance examination will be released. Then candidates will be able to apply for the examination.
According to officials, the process for registration will take place in November. UGC has validated the NET score card for admission to PhD. But there are many subjects related to engineering faculty in which NET examination is not conducted.
Now the university has decided to conduct DET for 14 subjects. These include Mechanical-Electronic, Computer Science, IT, Applied Physics, Applied Chemistry, Applied Maths, Data Science Energy, Statistics, Dance, Instrumentation and two other subjects. The process of filling up vacant seats and guides in PhD in these subjects has started.