23.Class 11 & 12 Short Essay and Article on : Ragging-An Evil

Ragging has raised its ugly head again. A recent incident at a prestigious school has shown that this evil has not yet come to an end. Write an article on “Ragging – An Evil”. You are Navtej/Navita.

Ans.                                                                        Ragging-An Evil

by Navtej

Ragging refers to an act that violates the dignity of a person. There are many complaints of physical and psychological injury due to ragging in educational institutions. It is a matter of shame that even though ragging has been criticized for decades, we still come across such incidents of inhuman torture. A recent incident of ragging at a prestigious school has shocked the entire city.

 It is a pity that the practice has been going on for decades and the victims of last year become the perpetrators this year. These instances only see the daylight when a student commits suicide due to inhuman behaviour and it gets reported in the media. Though ragging in schools is still not as bad as ragging that takes place in colleges. Schools do provide a safe environment where teachers, parents and even student council bodies are engaged in anti-ragging campaigns and thus it prevents ragging from taking an ugly form. However, in collages when students are exposed to the real world with no protected environment or the involvement of teachers and parents, ragging takes its ugliest form, where senior students use force, ask for unsuitable demands, including sexual favours by their juniors which result in suicides or even campus murders. However, ragging is not limited to schools and colleges but it is an issue that the entire society needs to deal with. The mindset of ‘powerful has the right to force the weak’ is the basis of ragging which is a social evil, as it leads to disintegration and differences within society.

This issue can be dealt with only when we make society more sensitive towards each other and also empower students not to be victimized but raise their voice in the face of ragging in any form.

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