Bengal Governor Seeks ISRO’s Help to Curb Ragging on Campuses

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has approached the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for coming up with an appropriate technical solution to curb the menace of ragging on college and university campuses.

A statement issued by West Bengal Raj Bhavan on Thursday night said, “C V Ananda Bose, Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal and Chancellor of the universities contacted the Chairman of ISRO for identifying appropriate technology to effectively contain and eliminate the menace of ragging in the university campuses.”

“They are trying to develop an appropriate technology solution using multiple sources such as video analytics, image matching automatic target recognition and remote sensing,” the governor said in the statement.

Earlier this month, a first-year undergraduate student died after allegedly being ragged and sexually harassed in a hostel of Jadavpur University. Till now a total of 13 persons including both current and former students, have been arrested in connection with the death of the undergraduate student in JU.