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Four years after losing son, father hopes
ragging will end
Wednesday April 10, 2013 12:37:33 PM,
Vishal Gulati,
IANS
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Shimla: Four years
after losing his son, the father of the boy who was ragged to
death is hopeful that one day such harassment of freshers in
universities and professional institutions will be a thing of the
past. He is actively involved in monitoring an anti-ragging
programme mandated by the Supreme Court in 2009.
However, Rajendar Kachroo has apparently lost interest in the
legal case of his Aman Kachroo. A first-year medical student, Aman
died of injuries suffered during ragging by the seniors in the
Rajendra Prasad Medical College and Hospital in Tanda in Kangra
district March 8, 2009.
He expressed ignorance of the verdict of the Himachal Pradesh High
Court last week in upholding the conviction of four drunk seniors
and held them responsible for his son's death. Upholding their
conviction by a trial court, the high court last week rejected
their appeal seeking relief and enhanced the fine from Rs.10,000
to Rs.100,000 each.
"I have lost all interest in the case," an ageing Kachroo told
IANS in an interview.
He was severely critical of the media for raking up the issue time
and again without serving any useful purpose. "I am fed up with
the interviews.
"For hours, I was interviewed by the news channels but nothing
came out of it," he said.
Kachroo said he is now concentrating his energy on strengthening
anti-ragging campaigns in educational institutions through the
Aman Satya Kachroo Trust, of which he is the founding trustee.
The trust works for the eradication of ragging, research on
judicial reforms and research on improved governance.
"The trust monitors and manages the National Ragging Prevention
Programme on behalf of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
It involves managing a call centre in Delhi, developing contact
data bases of students and staff and organising awareness
campaigns," Kachroo said.
He said the trust works in close cooperation with senior advocate
Gopal Subramaniam, the amicus curiae in a case in which the
Supreme Court ruled May 8, 2009 that implementing the anti-ragging
programme would be mandatory for the central government.
"The first component of the plan, comprising anti-ragging helpline
(100-180-5522), started in 2009 but became effective only last
year," he said.
He said on an average one serious complaint against ragging or
harassment is being registered every day.
"Generally the call centre gets 30-40 distress calls. Some of the
complaints are coming from remote corners of the country," Kachroo
said.
He said all subsequent communications with the local
administration and institute authorities are posted on the web so
that the victim could access the status of his/her complaint.
Last year the trust launched an online registration (www.amanmovement.org)
of a student's particulars.
"Currently over 300,000 students have been registered with the
trust. In the coming academic year (beginning June-July) we are
expected to have a data base of over 10 lakh students. The data
base will help to spread awareness on ragging and ways to counter
it through email and SMSes of the students," Kachroo said.
From April 17, 2012, to April 9 this year, the trust received 413
complaints of ragging and 82 are still being investigated by the
University Grants Commission, the nodal agency for implementing
the anti-ragging programme.
(Vishal Gulati can be contacted at vishal.g@ians.in)
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