GMCH bars interaction between batches to check ragging

Mohit Khanna

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 1

To avert ragging incidents in the beginning of the new session, the Director-Principal, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, has issued an order barring any interaction between MBBS students of 2016 and 2017 batches.

The order states that the two batches should not attend the college and hostel together for at least initial 10 days.

In the order, the students have been instructed to simultaneously proceed on vacation and vacate the hostel till August 10.

The order has left nearly 100 students of 2016 batch in a quandary. They have questioned the motive behind such a move. A majority of the students complained that their studies would be hit due to forced vacation.

Sources said today, security guards and the Chief Warden, Hostels, visited the hostel and the students of 2016 batch were asked to vacate the premises. By evening, the hostel, occupied by 2016 batch students, was vacated.

The college authorities maintained that they were adhering to the court recommendations.

The order, the copy of which is with The Tribune reads: “The new session of the MBBS batch 2017 admission is going to start from August 1 and the previous session is already going on. Now, in the view of the court recommendations, these two batches should not attend college and stay in hostel together at least for 10 initial days of the new session. Therefore, it has been decided that the MBBS batch of 2016 has to be sent on vacation from August 1 to 7 and the MBBS batch of 2017 would go on a vacation from August 8 to 10.

The Chief Warden, Hostels, GMCH Complex, will make necessary arrangements accordingly, reads the order. The copy of the order has been forwarded to all HoDs of the GMCH, professor in- charge (academics), chief warden and chairman, anti-ragging committee of the GMCH.

Despite repeated efforts, Director-Principal AK Janmeja was not available for comments.