Research paper on ragging

In 2007, the Committee of Consultants to Raghavan Committee considered ragging “neither a means of familiarization nor an introduction with freshers, but a form of psychopathic behaviour and a reflection of deviant personalities.

By rough estimates, from reports in English media alone, there are more than 10 deaths, 40-50 cases of serious injuries leading to hospitalization, several cases of rioting in colleges due to ragging every year.

The forms and traditions of ragging may vary from one place to another, but the greatest common factor in ragging in any educational institution is the creation of an environment of constant fear and intimidation of ‘freshers’” (Raghavan Committee Report]

The Committee stated: “If education, and particularly Higher Education, is to serve as the lever to the great surge forward of the Indian nation, the scourge of ragging which corrodes the vitals of our campuses needs to be curbed”(Raghavan Committee Report, 2007, p. i). Meaning and Definition of Ragging