A Supreme Court-appointed committee has pulled up the Medical Council of India (MCI) for not taking adequate measures to check incidents of ragging in medical colleges. At its 17th meeting here recently, the anti-ragging monitoring committee noted that the medical colleges were the "hot-beds” for ragging of students in the country but the MCI was yet to set up an anti-ragging cell for receiving complaints from the students and facilitating their prompt redressal.
The committee, headed by former chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) R K Raghavan, asked the MCI to set up a dedicated anti-ragging cell to deal with complaint of students even as the council insisted that all grievances of students were being taken care of through a grievance redressal cell. The monitoring committee rejected the council’s counter argument over setting up of a dedicated unit to deal with the cases…
