With the Supreme Court asking educational institutions to register FIRs against students indulging in ragging, the University Grants Commission (UGC) is set to issue strict instructions to all universities to implement the court’s order.
“We will issue instructions to the universities soon asking them to strictly implement the direction of the Supreme Court in letter and spirit,” UGC Secretary T R Kem said.
“As soon as we get a copy of the court’s order, we will issue the instructions to the universities within two to three days,” Mr Kem said.
There are about 275 universities under the UGC. The IITs, meanwhile, are set to approach the Union human resource development ministry to seek a uniform policy for them to implement the order.

Uniform mechanism
“We will move the ministry seeking a uniform mechanism for all IITs to implement the ruling,” IIT-Delhi Registrar Rajendra Singh said. He said the IIT here sets up an anti-ragging committee every year and a similar panel will be formed this year too.
The IIT-Kanpur has started a students’ helpline to save new entrants from ragging. An official of the IIT said the helpline team comprises 11 senior professors of the institute whose mobile numbers will be made available to all freshers at the time of admission.
The NCERT has said it will set up a committee to work out how a chapter on ragging can be introduced in its textbooks.
The SC on Wednesday accepted the Raghavan Committee’s recommendations on ragging, including an amendment in the Criminal Procedure Code to ensure that cases of ragging are tried on the fast track.