Despite curbs, ragging cases up by 41% in 5 years, UP tops list

The maximum complaints (15% or 461) were reported in Uttar Pradesh-the country's most populous state-between 2013 and 2017

The University Grants Commission (UGC) received 3,022 complaints of student ragging over the last five years, between 2013 and 2017, according to official data presented in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament).

 

Reported incidents of ragging increased 41% from 640 in 2013 to 901 in 2017, and 75% in one year (from 515 in 2016).

 

A ragging incident was reported from Kolkata where a first-year student of St. Paul’s College was allegedly stripped and tortured by ex-students on May 17, 2018, The Times of India reported