ISRO team to visit Jadavpur University campus in Kolkata, may implement surveillance system

Kolkata: A team from ISRO is likely to visit the Jadavpur University campus in Kolkata in the first week of September in most probability for the implementation of a surveillance system at Jadavpur University, in the backdrop of the death of a first-year undergraduate student at the varsity. West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has recently approached ISRO for technology to curb ragging at Jadavpur University and all other colleges and university campuses.

A team from ISRO has expressed interest in visit Jadavpur University campus, following the initiative by the Governor.

Bose has recently approached ISRO for technology to curb ragging at Jadavpur University and all other colleges and university campuses. Bose, who is the Chancellor of the state universities, has contacted the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Somanath, to identify appropriate technology to effectively contain and eliminate the menace of ragging on the university campuses, Raj Bhawan sources said.


Bose reached out to the ISRO to identify an appropriate technology solution to curb the menace of ragging on college and university campuses, a statement issued by Raj Bhavan recently said. Bose has also held discussions with a Hyderabad-based firm over the issue.

"ISRO will help us in containing and eliminating ragging on the campuses," Governor Bose has said.

Meanwhile, the State Higher Education Department has approved a grant of Rs 38 lakh for the installation of CCTVs on the university campus.

State Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said, "CCTV should have been installed, but the authorities did not keep an eye on it. If grants were given to them, did they not keep an eye on the infrastructure? Our Trinamool Congress Chhatra Praishad had demanded for a long time the installation of CCTVs."