{"id":97926,"date":"2020-01-18T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T22:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97926"},"modified":"2020-01-18T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T22:01:27","slug":"committee-to-aid-university-students-who-suffered-due-to-ragging-bandula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/18\/committee-to-aid-university-students-who-suffered-due-to-ragging-bandula\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee to aid university students who suffered due to ragging &#8211; Bandula"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Minister of Higher Education Bandula Gunawardena has instructed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to set up a committee to provide relief to students who have faced difficulties owing to ragging incidents at universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a media briefing at the Department of Government Information this morning (18), the Minister said he has proposed the appointment of a six-member committee in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This committee will conduct fair, impartial probes into the reasons for students dropping out of universities as a result of ragging and submit recommendations to the Higher Education Minister within 90 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister stated that he expects to provide relief for students who suffered because of ragging incidents since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Universities Act students cannot enter a local university if they fail to enroll once after receiving admission. Minister Gunawardena said the committee will look into this matter as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db1\u0dc0\u0d9a \u0dc0\u0daf\u0dba\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0db4\u0dd3\u0da9\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0da7 \u0db4\u0dad\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca\u0da7 \u0dc3\u0dc4\u0db1 \u0dc3\u0dd0\u0dbd\u0dc3\u0dd3\u0db8\u0dda \u0d9a\u0db8\u0dd2\u0da7\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n_cC3Ga-e0o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana Minister of Higher Education Bandula Gunawardena has instructed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to set up a committee to provide relief to students who have faced difficulties owing to ragging incidents at universities. Addressing a media briefing at the Department of Government Information this morning (18), the Minister said he has proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}