Campus police force likely to check ragging

chennai: soon universities and colleges across the country could be asked to have a campus police force to check ragging, according to r.k. raghavan, chairman of the monitoring committee for the prevention of ragging. while addressing a meeting of rotary club of madras on tuesday mr. raghavan, the former cbi director, said that he would suggest the idea having such a force.  . the former cbi director welcomed the idea of having campus police for every college or university of a certain size to protect students studying in the institution, while moving around during odd hours.   providing many suggestions, he said as the institutions were collecting huge money, they should be able to provide sufficient protection to all the students. he also proposed that the management needed to ensure dedicated wardens were provided to every hostel, preferably retired police or army officers. after the supreme court ordered that the educational regulators needed to take action against college managements, an engineering college in andhra pradesh had come under the scanner, he said. 'a show-cause notice has been served on why grants should not be withdrawn.'  one major recommendation of raghavan committee that has not been implemented yet was to allow first year students to arrive in college a month before their seniors. if they got used to the campus and created a bond among themselves, they would be able to stand up to their seniors if ragged, he said.police officers also needed to be made aware of the anti-ragging legislation in the states where it existed. 'here in tamil nadu we have it, but few police officers know about it. when i was a police officer here, i didn’t know of it,' he said.