Secunderabad: Gandhi Medical College suspends 10 MBBS students for one year for ragging

Hyderabad: Ten MBBS students of state-run Gandhi Medical College were suspended on Monday for one year, for allegedly ragging their juniors.

The students have also been evicted from the hostel.

In spite of firm guidelines, some senior students indulged in ragging 1st-year students in the hostel of Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad. The students who were ragged complained to the anti-ragging cell in UGC, New Delhi.

The suspension orders were issued following an inquiry by the anti-ragging committee. The committee found them guilty of ragging students.

Director of Medical Education (DME), Dr K Ramesh Reddy issued the suspension order. “The anti-ragging committee has conducted an inquiry into the incident and found that 10 senior MBBS students were indulging in ragging juniors. All of the 10 students are suspended from the college for one year,” he said.

The DME also warned senior students in other private and government medical colleges in Telangana that if anyone indulges in ragging, firm action as per the anti-ragging rules will be taken. “We have zero tolerance for ragging,” the DME said.

Series of suicides

Following a series of suicides by first-year MBBS students across the country, the National Medical Commission (NMC) in a circular had directed medical colleges to respond in a timely manner to complaints of harassment and ragging made by first-year MBBS undergraduates and PG medicos.

The NMC said that medical colleges were not promptly responding to the complaints of ragging and also not submitting their compliance report of Prevention and Prohibition of Ragging in Medical Colleges and Institutions, Regulations, 2021. Medical students can visit the NMC website (nmc.org.in) and lodge their complaints.