Tuesday, May 18, 2004

One more student becomes victim of severe ragging

Yahoo News: "Tapan Jajati Chhuria, a second year engineering student, has been bed-ridden eversince he was mercilessly beaten up two months ago. The 22-year-old is a student of Padma Shree Krutartha Acharya Institute of Engineering and Technology at Bargarh. Tapan, who has lost hearing in one ear, said that he was targeted by seniors as he belonged to a low caste.

Unofficial estimates say that nearly 25 per cent of the students who join professional courses drop out as they are not able to cope with severe ragging by their seniors.(ANI)"

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