The Gujarat government on Tuesday told the High Court it is ready to notify regulations framed by top education sector watchdogs to curb the menace of ragging in higher institutions of learning and fix accountability on the latter’s’ officers in case of any violation.
A division bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha Mayee was told by the state that the University Grants Commission (UGC), Medical Council of India (MCI) — now replaced by National Medical Commission — and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have framed “exhaustive regulations” to curb the menace of ragging in higher educational institutions.
The HC was hearing a suo motu (on its own) PIL related to ragging in educational institutes in Gujarat after such an incident was reported in BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad last year.