Anti-ragging declaration- UGC slaps show-cause notice on SSKM Medical College
Kolkata: Over the failure to submit "anti-ragging declaration" lists from their students and their guardians, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has slapped a show-cause notice on the city's premier Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education & Research, popularly referred to as the SSKM. Medical College & Hospital.
According to the IANS report, SSKM Medical College is not the only medical institute in the country which has been slapped with a show-cause notice by the UGC in the matter recently. Altogether 18 medical institutes have been slapped with similar notices by the commission, adds IANS in its report.
In the show-cause notice, the commission has also cautioned that any medical institute failing to give a satisfactory reply to the show-cause notice served on it might face appropriate action by the UGC in the matter.
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As per the Anti-Ragging Act of 2009, each education institute is required to get an undertaking from the new students as well as their guardians declaring about not getting involved in any sort of anti-ragging activities and those declarations are required to be made at a particular website of the commission.
However, the commission has noticed that not a single person out of the 200 new entrants at S.S.K.M has submitted any declaration on the website in the matter. Therefore, it had sought an explanation from the authorities of the said institute in the matter, the IANS report said.
However, sources from the state Health Department informed IANS that this complication might have arisen because of some communication gap and they are hopeful it will be resolved soon.
“In the case of medical colleges & hospitals, such anti-ragging undertakings are generally forwarded to the National Medical Commission. Now if the same needs to be forwarded to UGC as well, it will surely be done," a senior official of the Department said.
