HRD ministry issues circular to SPA director

NEW DELHI: Based on the findings of an inquiry committee into the "heinous ragging" of an SPA student by their seniors, the HRD ministry on Thursday issued a circular to SPA director Subir Saha asking him to take appropriate steps.
"It should be made clear to the parents that any further complaint about their wards in terms of gesture or threat to the victims will invite serious action in terms of rustication and appropriate penal action under the laws," the ministry has told SPA.
The ministry has also instructed SPA to arrange a meeting of the parents with the victims "so that they can assuage their hurt feelings and assure them that their wards would behave properly in future."
The inquiry report confirmed that ragging was common in SPA and the faculty was "not pro-active in checking it. SPA authorities have to be more vigilant to what is happening in their campus and hostels. They should arrange a students'' assembly where such shameful incidents be discussed and students made to take oath that such acts will not happen again," the ministry has instructed the SPA.