BIT Sindri holds camp on 'anti-ragging laws'

SINDRI: BIT Sindri, the only government engineering college in Jharkhand, organized a legal awareness camp on "anti-ragging laws" on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day on Thursday.
Addressing a large gathering of students in the Deshpandey Auditorium of the institute, legal luminaries from Dhanbad informed students about the law formulated to check ragging in educational institutions.
Students caught involved in ragging are bound to get strictest possible punishment, including expulsion, by the institute administration and there are provisions to hold the institute authorities guilty for not taking adequate measures to stop ragging, the experts said.
Students proclaimed guilty of ragging, except under extraordinary circumstances, would not get any relief from higher authorities and even the judiciary. Moreover, their misconduct would also be mentioned on their certificates, they added.
In his speech, Prof. G Kumar, the chief warden of the institute, said that fear psychosis alone was not enough for stopping ragging until students themselves resolve to make the campus free of ragging incidents. He also thanked the senior students and hostel superintendents for initiating steps to keep the campus free of ragging incidents.
Additional chief judicial magistrate Krishna Ranjan, senior advocate S K Mukherjee, advocates Abhay Kumar Bhatt of the legal aid panel and Nitin Singh and institute director S K Singh were prominent among those who addressed the students. Prof G Kumar compared the function.
In another development, the Rotary Club of Sindri has decided to organize a legal awareness camp at the Sindri Vidyapati Parishad Auditorium on Saturday. Club secretary Ashok Sharma said that the district judge of Dhanbad, judicial magistrates and senior advocates would make people aware of the laws and legal provisions related to atrocities on women, RTI, dowry and different Sections of the Criminal Procedure Code concerning the rights of the common people.
The district judge and judicial magistrates would also accept applications from people regarding their legal problems and forward the same to the departments concerned for redressal, he added.