Lok Sabha Question No. 5654 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-04-02
Subject: Incidents of Ragging in Schools
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNPURIA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.5654 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.04.2018

## Incidents of Ragging in Schools

† 5654. SHRI SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNAPURIA:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has received several complaints from parents/ students/schools/colleges  regarding  increase  in  incidents  of  ragging  in  schools/colleges/ Central Universities/Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other educational institutions located in various parts of the country;

(b) if so, the State-wise number of such cases reported during the last three years and the current year along with the number of students suspended in this regard;

(c) whether the Government proposes to take strict action against the guilty students to prevent such incidents in future; and

(d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SATYA PAL SINGH)

(a) to (d): Yes,  Madam.  The  details  of  complaints  of  ragging  received  in  University Grants Commission (UGC) during the last three years and the current year, State-wise are available  at  the  website  www.antiragging.in.  Details  of  ragging  cases  reported  are  as  per Annexure. Out of a total of 2041 ragging complaints received by the UGC during 1 st January, 2015 to 27 th March, 2018, students have been punished in 871 cases including suspension in 338 cases.

In order to address the issue of increase in ragging cases in campuses, the UGC has brought out the UGC Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions,  2009.  These  Regulations  are to  be  followed mandatorily  by  all  Higher Educational  Institutions  (HEIs).  They  provide  for  a  number  of  punitive  and  prohibitive measures.  Para  9.1  of  the  Regulations  provides  for  suspension,  debarring,  rustication, expulsion, etc. of the guilty students from the institution. These Regulations are available on UGC Website www.ugc.ac.in.

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## Annexure refered to in reply to part (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 5654 for 02.04.2018 regarding Incidents of Ragging in Schools.

Annexure State/UT-wise and Year-wise details of ragging cases during the last three years and

## the current year

| State/UT             |   2015 |   2016 |   2017 |   2018 |
|----------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| Andaman & Nicobar    |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Andhra Pradesh       |     12 |     17 |     28 |      5 |
| Arunachal Pradesh    |      0 |      0 |      1 |      0 |
| Assam                |      9 |     10 |     33 |      3 |
| Bihar                |     21 |     24 |     53 |     12 |
| Chandigarh           |      1 |      0 |      3 |      0 |
| Chhattisgarh         |      9 |      4 |      9 |      3 |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Daman & Diu          |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Delhi                |      8 |      8 |     13 |      6 |
| Goa                  |      1 |      1 |      0 |      1 |
| Gujarat              |     11 |      5 |     16 |      1 |
| Haryana              |      4 |     11 |     16 |      2 |
| Himachal Pradesh     |      4 |      4 |      6 |      2 |
| Jammu & Kashmir      |      4 |      2 |      7 |      1 |
| Jharkhand            |     19 |     15 |     20 |      3 |
| Karnataka            |     23 |     24 |     49 |      9 |
| Kerala               |     29 |     35 |     45 |     22 |
| Lakshadweep          |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Madhya Pradesh       |     48 |     55 |    100 |     33 |
| Maharashtra          |     17 |     29 |     46 |     11 |
| Manipur              |      0 |      0 |      4 |      0 |
| Meghalaya            |      1 |      1 |      1 |      0 |
| Mizoram              |      1 |      1 |      3 |      0 |
| Nagaland             |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Odisha               |     30 |     28 |     46 |      8 |
| Puducherry           |      3 |      0 |      8 |      1 |
| Punjab               |      9 |     15 |     16 |      2 |
| Rajasthan            |     16 |     20 |     40 |      8 |
| Sikkim               |      0 |      1 |      2 |      1 |
| Tamil Nadu           |     25 |     33 |     43 |      8 |
| Telangana            |      5 |     12 |     12 |      2 |

| Tripura       |   1 |   3 |   9 |   3 |
|---------------|-----|-----|-----|-----|
| Uttar Pradesh |  51 |  93 | 143 |  35 |
| Uttarakhand   |   8 |  14 |  30 |   1 |
| West Bengal   |  53 |  50 |  99 |  19 |
| GRAND TOTAL   | 423 | 515 | 901 | 202 |