Lok Sabha Question No. 1200 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-07
Subject: Check on Incidents of Ragging
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: MURALI MOHAN MAGANTI

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1200 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.12.2015

## Check on Incidents of Ragging

1200. SHRI M. MURALI MOHAN:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  received  a  number  of  complaints  from  the parents/students/schools/colleges regarding rising incidents of ragging in various schools/colleges/central universities/Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)/Indian Institutes  of  Management  (IIMs)  and  other  educational  institutions  in  various parts of the country;
- (b) if so, the number of such cases reported during the last three years and the current year, State-wise along with the cases of suspended students;
- (c) whether  stringent  action  is  being  taken  by  the  Government  against  the  erring students to prevent such incidents in future; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## A N S W E R

## MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SMT. SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

- (a): Yes, Madam.
- (b): Details are attached (Annexures-I & II).

(c)&(d): To address the issue of ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, the University Grants  Commission  (UGC)  has  brought  out  the  UGC  Regulations  on  Curbing  the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009. These regulations are to be followed by all Higher Education Institutions.

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## Yearly State-wise Complaints

| State                |   2012 |   2013 |   2014 |   2015 |   Total |
|----------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|---------|
| Andaman & Nicobar    |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| Andhra Pradesh       |     11 |     14 |     21 |     11 |      57 |
| Arunachal Pradesh    |      0 |      1 |      0 |      0 |       1 |
| Assam                |      4 |     15 |      8 |      7 |      34 |
| Bihar                |     27 |     33 |     39 |     21 |     120 |
| Chandigarh           |      0 |      1 |      0 |      1 |       2 |
| Chhatisgarh          |      4 |      4 |      7 |      8 |      23 |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| Daman & Diu          |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| Delhi                |      3 |     10 |      7 |      7 |      27 |
| Goa                  |      0 |      0 |      0 |      1 |       1 |
| Gujarat              |      2 |     12 |     14 |     10 |      38 |
| Haryana              |      5 |      9 |      7 |      5 |      26 |
| Himachal Pradesh     |      3 |      5 |      3 |      4 |      15 |
| Jammu & Kashmir      |      3 |      6 |      7 |      2 |      18 |
| Jharkhand            |     14 |     24 |     13 |     17 |      68 |
| Karnataka            |     10 |     23 |     20 |     23 |      76 |
| Kerala               |     18 |     25 |     17 |     26 |      86 |
| Lakshadweep          |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| Madhya Pradesh       |     32 |     80 |     75 |     45 |     232 |
| Maharashtra          |     15 |     27 |     41 |     17 |     100 |
| Manipur              |      0 |      1 |      1 |      0 |       2 |
| Meghalaya            |      0 |      1 |      0 |      1 |       2 |
| Mizoram              |      0 |      0 |      0 |      1 |       1 |
| Nagaland             |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| Orissa               |     44 |     71 |     32 |     28 |     175 |
| Pondicherry          |      0 |      4 |      7 |      3 |      14 |
| Punjab               |     12 |     12 |     12 |      8 |      44 |
| Rajasthan            |     19 |     39 |     28 |     16 |     102 |
| Sikkim               |      0 |      1 |      0 |      0 |       1 |
| Tamil Nadu           |     17 |     32 |     32 |     23 |     104 |
| Telangana            |      0 |      0 |      3 |      5 |       8 |
| Tripura              |      4 |      4 |      4 |      1 |      13 |
| Uttar Pradesh        |     85 |     94 |     80 |     48 |     307 |
| Uttarakhand          |      6 |     11 |     13 |      7 |      37 |
| West Bengal          |     38 |     81 |     54 |     51 |     224 |
| Grand Total          |    376 |    640 |    545 |    397 |    1958 |

## Annexure-I

## Annexure-II

## State-wise Statistics of Cases where Punishment was Suspension

| State          |   In 2012 |   In 2013 |   In 2014 |   In 2015 |   Total |
|----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------|
| ANDHRA PRADESH |         0 |         1 |         3 |         2 |       6 |
| ASSAM          |         0 |         0 |         0 |         1 |       1 |
| BIHAR          |         0 |         0 |         1 |         1 |       2 |
| CHHATISGARH    |         0 |         0 |         0 |         1 |       1 |
| DELHI          |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| GUJARAT        |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |       1 |
| HARYANA        |         0 |         1 |         0 |         2 |       3 |
| JHARKHAND      |         0 |         0 |         0 |         3 |       3 |
| KARNATAKA      |         1 |         0 |         1 |         4 |       6 |
| KERALA         |         0 |         1 |         3 |         6 |      10 |
| MADHYA PRADESH |         0 |         2 |         7 |         5 |      14 |
| MAHARASHTRA    |         0 |         0 |         2 |         1 |       3 |
| ORISSA         |         0 |         2 |         3 |         4 |       9 |
| PUNJAB         |         0 |         0 |         0 |         2 |       2 |
| RAJASTHAN      |         0 |         1 |         2 |         3 |       6 |
| TAMIL NADU     |         1 |         0 |         9 |         3 |      13 |
| TRIPURA        |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |       1 |
| UTTAR PRADESH  |         2 |         0 |         7 |         7 |      16 |
| UTTARAKHAND    |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |       1 |
| WEST BENGAL    |         0 |         3 |         3 |        12 |      18 |
| Total          |         4 |        12 |        44 |        57 |     117 |