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  • Tech student lands in prison for ragging girl

    Tech student lands in prison for ragging girl.

    For the first time in north Coastal Andhra, a student has been sent to judicial remand under the AntiRagging Act and his admission cancelled by the college management where he was pursuing his course.

    The Anandapuram police, which picked up the youth outside the college premises on Wednesday, said Botsa Vinod Kumar, a fourth-year engineering (ECE group) student of VITAM Engineering College had been harassing a first-year student, Ms Kasi Mounika, since she took admission this year. He had often accosted her and forced her
    to say, “I love you”.

    The girl ignored his overtures for some time but lost patience on Tuesday when he started following her from Old Dairy Farm, where she boards the rickshaw or bus to go to the college. When she tried to board an autorickshaw, he shooed the auto driver away and forced her into a rick
    shaw hired by him.

    Throughout the journey he went on forcing her to say she loved him.

    After getting down from the rickshaw, she went straight to the principal’s office and lodged a formal complaint of ragging against Vinod Kumar. The principal forwarded her complaint to the college’s anti-ragging committee.

    The committee after inquiry found Vinod Kumar guilty and asked to the principal to take action against him under the Anti-Ragging Act.

    The principal filed a complaint with the Anandapuram police station attaching the committee recommendations and the complaint lodged by Ms Mounika.

    Source: DC

  • Parents protest fee inaction

    Parents protest fee inaction.

    The issue of escalating fees in private schools has become a matter of concern, with these schools fleecing parents with their arbitrary fee hikes every year.

    In this context, various parents’ associations are up in arms against the state government over the inordinate delay in setting up a ‘Fee Regulatory Authority’ for private schools.

    These associations, such as Hyderabad Schools Par
    ents’ Association and DPS Parents Association have now decided to take action ‘ by launching agitation programmes from next week, demanding the implementation of AP High Court orders on fee regulation.

    On August 27 this year, the High Court had made it clear that the government has the right to regulate fee structures in private schools.

    But more than two months since the judgement was delivered, little has been done in this regard.

    The government, which expressed its inability to regulate fees in private schools citing stay orders from the HC over the fee regulation orders issued in August 2009, has persisted with inaction even after those orders were vacated
    by the court exactly a year after they were issued.

    Since the stay orders were in force till August 27, the schools hiked their fees again in June this year at the beginning of the new academic year. Despite the parents lodging several complaints about the unreasonable fee hike, the government remained a mute spectator.

    However, government officials said they were still examining a copy of the judgement and that it would take some time before they came out with a suitable action plan.

    Source: DC

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