Ragging: Rural students worst affected

The ragging incidents in the colleges have turned nightmare for the students from rural areas as they could not withstand the ‘pressure’ mounts by their seniors unlike urban based students and resorting to extreme steps in Telangana.

Rural Students studying in colleges in cities were facing the ragging more these days.

Rural background students face difficult to adjust to the new environment when they entered in the engineering colleges have different environment in cities like Hyderabad. Parents are thinking twice to send their children for colleges especially engineering.

Educational experts say that lack of monitoring on the activities of the students was resulting in the incidents of ragging most of the times and failure of the college managements in taking stringent action against the culprits who involved in ragging with the feeling that this would affect the image of the college.            

Recently, ragging incident took place in Singareni polytechnic college in Mancherial in first week of August and 10 students who were involved in ragging have been suspended for 10 days from the college and hostel.

Ragging incident that took place in Polytechnic College in CCC Naspur in Mancherial came to light after 15 days the incident took place with the victim lodging a police complaint against his seniors who ragged and attacked him for not following their instructions. The college is being run under the management of the Singareni.

The college management suspended the seven senior students who allegedly involved in the ragging. The victim student was native of Godavarikhani in Karimnagar district. 

Recently, V. Sainath, B tech student studying at engineering college in Hyderabad by jumping before the train in Warangal as he could not withstand the ragging by his seniors . Sainath’s family was settled down in Ramakrishnapur town of Adilabad.

Sainath was known to be sincere and hard working nature youth who completed his SSC in the local private school and moved to Warangal for intermediate and later took the admission in engineering college in Hyderabad.