DU places police pickets and joint controls to curb ragging

Delhi University (DU) has taken preventive measures like police pickets and joint controls, vigilance squads and disciplinary committees to curb ragging

DU has started its academic session for the year with courses restructured to follow the earlier three-year format.

University authorities have already taken preventive measures to curb ragging on campus. DU officials have met with officials from the Delhi Police as well as the Delhi Transport Corporation to discuss means so that students have smooth induction and construct a mechanism to prevent ragging, a daily reported.

Cases of ragging at the varsity will be monitored through two joint controls - one in North and the other in South Campus. Police pickets have also been placed outside colleges.

Anti-ragging and vigilance squads as well as disciplinary committees - comprising teachers and students - have been constituted to check ragging. Colleges had asked students and parents to submit affidavits on anti-ragging. The university has also asked the colleges to put up rules regarding prohibition of ragging on college premises.

Delhi University has rolled back the controversial four-year under-graduate programme (FYUP) and restructured the four-year courses introduced last year. According to the new restructuring, the university will function under a unique arrangement where students will be simultaneously taught under two different course structures.

The first will be exclusively for the 2013 FYUP batch and the second will be according to the 2012 syllabus for the rest of the batches.