National Medical Commission sets up anti-ragging panel, seeks details of suicides by students | Education News,The Indian Express
The committee, chaired by the president of the Under-Graduate Medical Education Board, Dr Aruna Vanikar, reviewed ragging complaints from students and parents during its first meeting held late last month.
The committee, chaired by the president of the Under-Graduate Medical Education Board, Dr Aruna Vanikar, reviewed ragging complaints from students and parents during its first meeting held late last month.
The committee has since set up an email id — antiragging@nmc.org — for reporting such incidents, providing students another redressal mechanism outside college.
“All colleges are requested to give wide publicity by publishing the same on website and displaying on the prominent places like hostel, mess, classroom, library, lecture hall, common room etc. A compliance report in this regard may kindly be sent,” said the notice from NMC.
Other than the complaints mechanism, the committee has asked medical colleges to send in details about the number of students who died by suicide during the last five years (department-wise in respect of PG students), the number of students who have left the college or institute during the last five years, and details of the working hours and weekly offs given to students. The committee has asked all colleges to send in the details by October 7, while adding that “all incidents of suicide and suicidal tendency are not linked to ragging.”
Although many have said that this was a step in the right direction to ensure good mental health of medical students, it was not adequate.
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