What is CURE: The NoRagging Group

CURE was started by two students in the year 2001 under the banner of The
NoRagging Group. We started with an Online Discussion group and an informative
website. From that time, we have come a long way and today we are in process of
joining an NGO as an independent unit under them. We aspire to mature to an
independent NGO by next year.

I will like to take you through our journey and activities across these three
years. For the first year CURE was basically an online group and extended
help by educating public about the phenomenon of ragging and extending support
to victims through emails.
In the year 2002, Harsh and Rajiv joined CURE and gave it a new lease of life.
At the same time, many dedicated members including Kiran, Rajan Srivastav,
etc. joined our group. This year and the coming year was an era of activity
which also led to the re-christening of The NoRagging Group to Coalition to
Uproot Ragging from Education.
Due to Rajan Srivastav, we were able to publish the story of Harsh far and
wide through an NGO magazine, thus making public more aware. Rajiv helped
us organizing a talk at Unnati�s (NGO) Seminar. This paved way and CURE
addressed talk show on Sab TV, organized talk show for DD-Bharti, etc.
Today, CURE has matured, it has a clear understanding of what it wants to do,
what are its policies, has an organizational structure and a list of projects it
want to take-up.
Welcome to CURE, we require your support to end the menace of ragging.

CURE Principle
CURE is against severe physical and sexual ragging, while we are open to
discussion on mild forms of ragging.

Objectives of CURE
� Dent the public opinion about ragging by spreading awareness.
� Maintain a record of ragging incidents, news, measures, etc. to
create a permanent reference.
� Convince faculty and institutions to start Anti-Ragging Programmes.
� To devise alternate interesting means of interaction between
freshers and seniors.
� Prevent ragging by setting up CURE Student Chapters at colleges.
� Counsel victims and help them get justice.

Implementation Projects
� Publication of a periodical to update you about ragging.
� Maintenance of the online website with constant updating.
� Arrange talks at colleges, NGO seminars.
� Establishment of Student Chapters at colleges.
� Arrange an all-India essay competition on ragging to divert attention
of public towards ragging.
� F-CURE: Arrange a network of faculty cooperation across India to
prevent ragging.
� Arrange a mega-seminar on ragging.
� Try to put-up an activist movement
to get justice to ragging victims.

How we work at CURE?
CURE has a hierarchy on the lines of NGOs, which gets elected democratically
annually. The idea of hierarchy is to streamline energy and reach decisions,
while management is very flexible.
CURE members have brainstormed many projects as noted in the previous
section. CURE looks for people who could get involved in these projects (or
conceptualize new ones) as conveners or volunteers.
These project are/will be managed by conveners independently with support
from all CURE members.

What CURE is looking for?
Volunteers for taking movement against ragging forward.
Financial Aid for financing various CURE projects.
Reciprocal links with educational institutions and organizations.

Did you know that...
CURE has evolved from an initial membership of just 4 to 170 members.
CURE has chapters at Delhi, Bombay, Pune, Kanpur and (soon in) Bangalore.
The CURE website is the only online dedicated forum to condemn ragging.
CURE has contact with noted psychiatrist, Dr. V. M. Sharma, Vimhans for
online counseling of victims.
CURE has presented seminars at Unnati (NGO), organised DD-Bharti Show, etc.
CURE had actively pursued Harsh�s case through letters and emails to serve as
an eye opener to the society.
CURE is in contact with international organizations such as �Play for Peace�
and �Ofafoo� to work together and initiate innovative activities in colleges.

• CURE Newsletter 2006
• Chapter Coordination
• Tie-ups with the educational institutions
• Website updation
• Misc. issues

Hi Friends,
  Life is full of ups & downs... its known to everybody, so I won't
like to give any lecture on this. I would just like to remind
ourselves of one little saying-

  The saying they used in the Movie "Black"


An opportunity to do something good in life doesn't come always.


So when we have such a unique opportunity to do our bit for our
innocent brothers and sisters- trying to save them from being
tortured mentally, physically, sexually...in the name of
RAGGING...   we must try our best to save them.


We may do something to save them...
Thus we ll also do something for Healthy Education...
And we ll do something for the society


AT LEAST WE SHALL DO SOMETHING GOOD IN LIFE!

My Details:
Name:  Mohit Garg
Contact: (+91)93422-40886
Residential Address: 302, Bilden Enclave, GM Palya, Bangalore
Chapter: Bangalore (not yet formally started)
Association with CURE: Co-founder. Joined in 2001.
Action Items for Me: Primary responsibility is the website.

-Mohit

On 5/8/06, Vidya Swamy <vidya1512@...> wrote:

Dear CURE Members

As the Communication Head of CURE, I want the following details of all the members (active/dormant) --

1. Name
2. Contact numbers (mobile and landline)
3. Residential address
4. Chapter you are affiliated with
5. E-mail id(s)
6. Period you have been associated with CURE

Dormant members -- Please send the above mentioned details to me ASAP. Secondly, dont be dormant. Your opinion, about the various issues that come up for discussion, matters a lot. You might not realise it but its a fact. As of now, its like, just 10-15 of us dominate the group while the rest of you stay in the background. So what is happening is that we take a decision and we thrust it on all of you. As the Communication Head, I dont want CURE to function like this. Its no point boasting to the world outside that we are a 400 members strong group although in reality its just 15 of us who actively participate. 15 in front of 400 is like a drop in front of the ocean!!

All -- If you are not comfortable sending the above mentioned details on the group, you can send it to me on any of the following mail ids: vidya1512@... , vidya3ns@... , vidya.swamy@...   

PLEASE DO SEND THE DETAILS. If you sincerely want CURE to grow as an organisation, all the 400 members HAVE to participate. I personally request all the dormant members to start taking an interest in CURE and its activities. Also, if any one of you come up with any idea whereby CURE can function even better, without any second thought or hesitation, put it on the common mail id(s).

Chapter Head(s) -- Pls mention which chapter you are heading along with the above mentioned details.

Naviin Agarwwal and Dr. Neeraj Tripathi -- Please mail me or send on the common mail id, the developments in Allahabad regarding CURE. 

Regards,
Vidya, Communication Head.

 

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regards
Mohit Garg
http://www.mohit.noragging.com/

Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education (CURE)
http://www.noragging.com

• Get to know each other
  
• Discussion on ragging related issues
• Brain storm on the activities we can conduct in Bangalore
• Look at formalising the chapter and appointing/electing office bearers
  
• Anything else which may come up in the discussions
  

Hi

 

I�m Vidya, the Communication Head � cum � Moderator of CURE. Recently, on May 6, I sent out a mail on the common id requesting all the members to give me the following information :

 

1.       Name

2.       Contact numbers (mobile and landline)

3.       Residential address

4.       Chapter you are affiliated with

5.       E-mail id(s)

6.       Period you have been associated with CURE

You have still not provided me the relevant details.

 

Also, you are not an active member of CURE & that is really unfortunate. I�m sure you must be receiving the mails that some of us send on the group regarding some ideas or suggestions or views on certain issue. I�m even sure of the fact that you too must be having some views or some ideas that would help CURE to function better as an organisation. Well, please don�t keep them to yourselves. Your opinions matter a lot and I�m not saying this to please you, it�s a fact.

 

Personally, I want to eradicate ragging as it prevails in our society in a negative sense. So do all those members who are active, but trust me we cannot do this without your support. We need you.

 

As a friend, I�m requesting you with folded hands, please, please, please take an interest in CURE activities and contribute towards eradicating this evil called ragging from our society. If we don�t do it, our own brothers/sisters, even children, will end up facing this brutal practice. Atleast for their sake, please support us.

 

If you have any problem feel free to talk to me. You can contact me at any of the following mail id(s) : vidya1512@... , vidya3ns@..., vidya.swamy@...  or call me at 98688 99177.

 

Awaiting your reply��.

 

Regards,

Vidya

Communication Head/Moderator, CURE

Vidya.

Hi Friends,
  The new session is going to start very soon. New session means new
batch of INNOCENT Freshers & a lot of PERVERT seniors awating for
them.
  Its time for us to swing into full action, whatever possile for us,
to try our best to save these INNOCENT boys & girls from falling prey
to the PERVERTs. Lets try our best for our brothers & sisters.

  Come forward, Everyone, DON'T STAY DORMANT. THE SOCIETY NEEDS YOU.
COME, FIGHT THE WAR AGAINST RAGGING.

Regards & Best Wishes,
Kushal.

great news..finally administrators are getting into
the act and once we hit critical mass here as much as
with the Chapters we should be making major strides in
the year(s) ahead

Rajiv

--- Harsh Agarwal <harsh1926@...> wrote:

> Dear Members,
>
>   In the sixth year of its existence CURE is finally
> successful in entering into a phase where colleges
> are approaching it for formal tie-up with to curb
> ragging. Last year CURE apprised BIMTECH Director of
> severe ragging incident taking place in its
> institute, the college administration took serious
> steps to control ragging and set up an expert
> committee to find out ways to make the campus
> �Ragging-Free�. This year two professors from that
> committee contacted CURE and sought its help in
> preparing guidelines to stop ragging besides many
> other activities.
>   Yesterday members from CURE Delhi chapter met
> those two professors to give final shape to
> CURE-BIMTECH partnership, not only this the
> professors also expressed their desire for
> affiliation of CURE with the other educational
> intuitional being run by Birla Foundation to make
> them ragging free too.
>
>   I have hopes that taking example from BIMTECH many
> other educational institutions will come forward and
> will take proactive steps to make their campus
> ragging free.
>
>   Regards,
>
>   Harsh Agarwal
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
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- Albert Einstein

  Thats great, finally people are waking up to serious issues like raging,hope more institutions joins our fight against ragging.

Anisha


On Wed, 24 May 2006 Rajiv Ramchandran wrote :
>great news..finally administrators are getting into
>the act and once we hit critical mass here as much as
>with the Chapters we should be making major strides in
>the year(s) ahead
>
>Rajiv
>
>--- Harsh Agarwal <harsh1926@...> wrote:
>
> > Dear Members,
> >
> >  In the sixth year of its existence CURE is finally
> > successful in entering into a phase where colleges
> > are approaching it for formal tie-up with to curb
> > ragging. Last year CURE apprised BIMTECH Director of
> > severe ragging incident taking place in its
> > institute, the college administration took serious
> > steps to control ragging and set up an expert
> > committee to find out ways to make the campus
> > �Ragging-Free�. This year two professors from that
> > committee contacted CURE and sought its help in
> > preparing guidelines to stop ragging besides many
> > other activities.
> >  Yesterday members from CURE Delhi chapter met
> > those two professors to give final shape to
> > CURE-BIMTECH partnership, not only this the
> > professors also expressed their desire for
> > affiliation of CURE with the other educational
> > intuitional being run by Birla Foundation to make
> > them ragging free too.
> >
> >  I have hopes that taking example from BIMTECH many
> > other educational institutions will come forward and
> > will take proactive steps to make their campus
> > ragging free.
> >
> >  Regards,
> >
> >  Harsh Agarwal
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
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> > Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.
>
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Hi Friends,
  This is no new guy. I am Kushal whom you know very well. I am taking
the 400th seat so that it will allow me to display this group in my
profile at Yahoo! 360.
  Wishing our success in the war against ragging.

Best Wishes,
Kushal.

What is CURE: The NoRagging Group

CURE was started by two students in the year 2001 under the banner of The
NoRagging Group. We started with an Online Discussion group and an informative
website. From that time, we have come a long way and today we are in process of
joining an NGO as an independent unit under them. We aspire to mature to an
independent NGO by next year.

I will like to take you through our journey and activities across these three
years. For the first year CURE was basically an online group and extended
help by educating public about the phenomenon of ragging and extending support
to victims through emails.
In the year 2002, Harsh and Rajiv joined CURE and gave it a new lease of life.
At the same time, many dedicated members including Kiran, Rajan Srivastav,
etc. joined our group. This year and the coming year was an era of activity
which also led to the re-christening of The NoRagging Group to Coalition to
Uproot Ragging from Education.
Due to Rajan Srivastav, we were able to publish the story of Harsh far and
wide through an NGO magazine, thus making public more aware. Rajiv helped
us organizing a talk at Unnati�s (NGO) Seminar. This paved way and CURE
addressed talk show on Sab TV, organized talk show for DD-Bharti, etc.
Today, CURE has matured, it has a clear understanding of what it wants to do,
what are its policies, has an organizational structure and a list of projects it
want to take-up.
Welcome to CURE, we require your support to end the menace of ragging.

CURE Principle
CURE is against severe physical and sexual ragging, while we are open to
discussion on mild forms of ragging.

Objectives of CURE
� Dent the public opinion about ragging by spreading awareness.
� Maintain a record of ragging incidents, news, measures, etc. to
create a permanent reference.
� Convince faculty and institutions to start Anti-Ragging Programmes.
� To devise alternate interesting means of interaction between
freshers and seniors.
� Prevent ragging by setting up CURE Student Chapters at colleges.
� Counsel victims and help them get justice.

Implementation Projects
� Publication of a periodical to update you about ragging.
� Maintenance of the online website with constant updating.
� Arrange talks at colleges, NGO seminars.
� Establishment of Student Chapters at colleges.
� Arrange an all-India essay competition on ragging to divert attention
of public towards ragging.
� F-CURE: Arrange a network of faculty cooperation across India to
prevent ragging.
� Arrange a mega-seminar on ragging.
� Try to put-up an activist movement
to get justice to ragging victims.

How we work at CURE?
CURE has a hierarchy on the lines of NGOs, which gets elected democratically
annually. The idea of hierarchy is to streamline energy and reach decisions,
while management is very flexible.
CURE members have brainstormed many projects as noted in the previous
section. CURE looks for people who could get involved in these projects (or
conceptualize new ones) as conveners or volunteers.
These project are/will be managed by conveners independently with support
from all CURE members.

What CURE is looking for?
Volunteers for taking movement against ragging forward.
Financial Aid for financing various CURE projects.
Reciprocal links with educational institutions and organizations.

Did you know that...
CURE has evolved from an initial membership of just 4 to 170 members.
CURE has chapters at Delhi, Bombay, Pune, Kanpur and (soon in) Bangalore.
The CURE website is the only online dedicated forum to condemn ragging.
CURE has contact with noted psychiatrist, Dr. V. M. Sharma, Vimhans for
online counseling of victims.
CURE has presented seminars at Unnati (NGO), organised DD-Bharti Show, etc.
CURE had actively pursued Harsh�s case through letters and emails to serve as
an eye opener to the society.
CURE is in contact with international organizations such as �Play for Peace�
and �Ofafoo� to work together and initiate innovative activities in colleges.

Unbelievable. There needs to be a CURE response to
this

Rajiv

--- kushal_rgkmch@... wrote:

>
> The men�s room
>
>
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040829/asp/look/story_3684148.asp
>
> Hi Friends, Here is another strory of brutal torture
> on innocents by
> perverted seniors. Hope you take a look. Kushal.
>


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hi ,

The  bolg looks great , its done really well. the content and the look of it is approprite.

I agree with vidya adding more interms of incidents or articles would enhance the blog.

Sorry for my delayed response.

Regards
Anisha


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 Vidya Swamy wrote :
>The blog is really nice. Good job. The homepage esp is simply great. I think we shd keep adding new incidents to this, just to keep it updated.
>Regards,
>Vidya.
>Communication Head/Moderator
>P.S. -- I request all the members to see the blog and post their comments/suggestions.
>

Dear friends,

This is the last and the final call for the Newsletter articles, if
you wish to send us any article on ragging to be published in our
Newsletter 2006 then kindly do so ASAP as we are in the final stage of
our Newsletter work and have to meet our deadline to publish it latest
by July 15th.

I hope you all visited our newly created blog on ragging, if not then
please do so and quickly send us your feedback on it.
www.noragging.blogspot.com

Thanks

Harsh

"At HT.Com, we're keen to know what our surfers think of the world they live in. Be it politics, sports, Bollywood or literature, we've decided to let their voice be heard. So speak up. And tell us how it should be.

This week, our survey is on ragging.

Call it what you will --- positive interaction, creative introduction or comprehensive initiation, but ragging has been, and still is, a subject of much debate. And there is no effective solution in sight. So,"

Awesome job

Rajiv

--- Mohit Garg <mohit.garg@...> wrote:

> Slight correction to the link below, it is
>
> http://www.noragging.blogspot.com
>
> thanks
> Mohit
>
> On 6/18/06, Harsh Agarwal <harsh1926@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >   Dear friends,
> >
> > I am happy to announce that recently CURE has
> started its blog on ragging.
> > This blog is basically a compilation of ragging
> news  to enable the blog
> > visitors easily access latest news on ragging from
> all across the nation.
> > Besides that CURE is intending to start discussion
> on different aspects of
> > ragging on this blog, therefore you are welcome to
> send your blog entries to
> > us. The URL of this blog is
> www.noragging.bolgspot.com . The blog has
> > already been linked to CURE website.
> >
> > I would humbly request everyone to please visit
> this blog and leave your
> > comments on the articles and news items posted
> there. Also I would request
> > everyone to please feel free to suggest and give
> your opinion to further
> > improve this blog.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Harsh Agarwal
> > www.noragging.com CURE website
> > www.noragging.blogspot.com CURE blog
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> thanks and regards
> Mohit Garg
> Founder Member, CURE
> http://www.noragging.com
>
> Personal Homepage: http://mohitgarg.vectorstar.net
>


If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein

New Delhi, June 25: TRYING to put a lid on cases of ragging, Delhi University has decided to make it mandatory for all colleges to introduce a sealed complaint box to enable victims to drop their complaints.

DU Proctor Gurmeet Singh today said the complaint box will be placed outside each college principal’s office.

The University has also decided to give the colleges more teeth to deal with ragging cases. According to another new order — Clause 5 of Ordinance 15 — colleges will now have the ‘‘authority to exercise all (appropriate) disciplinary powers’’. Shorn of officialese, this means colleges would judge ragging cases on their ‘merit’, and award punishment accordingly.

Singh said the idea behind the sealed complaint box is to guarantee anonymity to the students. The first-of-its-kind move, he said, will give the students, especially hostellers, an opportunity to register complaints without fear. “Also, the presence of this mechanism in itself would act as a deterrent.”

He added: ‘‘According to the nature of the complaint, the colleges have been given the power to decide punishment this year — it could be a small fine of Rs 50 or even expulsion.”

Singh said it will also be mandatory to identify a Disciplinary Resource Person in each college, hostel, department

and faculty.

DU officials define ragging as ‘‘any obscene or unpleasant activity that embarrasses the fresher.’’ This is different from “interacting” with freshers or talking to them about the college’s traditions.

Under Ordinance 15, ragging in any form is banned in DU colleges and, in extreme cases, can invite expulsion for the offender.