According to the recent reports released by the University Grants Commission on Wednesday, Telangana ranks second after Karnataka, throughout India, with 11 percent of students reporting sexual ragging by their seniors in higher educational institutions as compared to a national average of 4 percent ragging in other states.
Four-member committee has conducted the study- ‘Psychosocial study of ragging in selected educational institutions in India’.
Nearly 10,632 students from 37 colleges/ universities from the country participated in the study which revealed junior students or fresher’s in the state are subjected to two kinds of sexual ragging – stripping and sodomy, which is most common among male students living in hostels or students who are enrolled in professional courses like engineering, medical, nursing and hotel management.
The study read, “The highest percentage of ragging involving stripping was reported from a private nursing college in Telangana (10.4 per cent). Most common forms of sexual ragging are asking students to enact sexual scenes or narrating stories with sexual content.”
