Serious Ragging is going on in 'Padmanava College of Engineering, Rourkela'
which is situated at Sector-4 in Rourkela is the worst of all the engineering colleges in Orissa. 

Following are the points which shows the actual ugly picture of this college.

1) If you are taking new admission, then the college principal will go on leave for 1 month so that Registrar takes all the controls of taking admissions and the Registrar will beg for donation from each of the Student's parents in multiples of  thousands rupees like 10K,20K,30K etc.

2) And If you have got admitted through OPECA, then you are sure to be screwed by this college administration. The Registrar will force you to take a fresh admission under management quota in college (by saying that they are not gonna admit any students admitted through OPECA), so that they can get donations. Recently this has happened with 2006 batch of students.

3) Apart from this you will be forced to by a new laptop from college (which will surely cost you more(around 15K more), even though you need it or not.

4) While taking admission you and your father will be asked to sign a undertaking form (which is actually xerox of a type letter) which says that you have to pay the amount of fees which the college decides.  There is one more point to note that, if by some how you want to leave that college (suppose you get admission in better college or want to reappear for AIEEE again after seeing  severe ragging in college or anything else), then college will ask you to pay the fees for remaining years also (even though there is no rule in any of the Universities like this), otherwise your  College Leaving Certificate (CLC) will not be released.  Also to prove this, college admin is saying that Its the rule made by private colleges and this rule is abided by the universities, but when asked they refuse to give it in writing (if asked).

5) There is no control of College authorities over the senior students and ragging.  Ragging is at the top level in this college.  Raggers picks up the juniors even from their class-rooms for ragging.  In the hostels, it is worse than college.  The hostel superintendant is also indulged with the senior students. 

Senior have also set-up some 15 rules for juniors to follow

 a) Juniors should always keeps staring at the 3rd button on the shirt.  The buttons should be tighened upto neck.
If some junior forgets to do this, senior girls will slap them in front of all college students.

 b) If some senior comes infront of juniors, then junior students should bend upto 90 degrees to salute the seniors.

 c) Juniors should remove their hair, mustache and maintain their face clean with shave and without hair on head.

 d) Juniors should always wear formal shirt-pants, shoes and keep on wearing them till the midnight
     (sometimes even upto 2 am). The shoes should have lace with white socks.

 e) Juniors should always go in queue for the lunch / dinner.

 f)  Junior should also write college assignment of Senior.

 g) Junior should drink liquor and smoke cigerrate when seniors asks them to do otherwise junior will be severely punished.

 h) Junior shouldn't go to TV rooms.  Juniors should be in proper Uniform while meeting seniors.

 i) Junior shouldn't go to Canteen.

 j) Juninor shouldn't keep Radio, Music System where as seniors do have these in their rooms.

These are some of the points of the rules.  Each of the junior's hostel room has these rules pasted on their room's wall (in Wing-B of Boys hostel).

There is only one hostel each for boys and girls i.e. no separate hostel for Freshers. 

Even though, the Uniform has been inforced by the college for all the students, none of the senior students seemed to be wearing the Uniform in the college.

Many of the Senior students drink alcohols along with Hostel Superintendent in a room (of senior students) in A-Wing.  Thats why, even if some junior complains about the ragging to Hostel Superintendant, he is still beaten by the seniors because Hostel superintendant tells everything to Senior Students.

And if you go to college admin, then they will not do anything because If they punish any senior student, then senior students will go on indefinit strike and force the college to close for atleast 1-2 weeks.

There are many many more things to say, but this seems to be enough for you to know and take preventive action. So If you are going to take admission
in engineering, then don't join this college otherwise you and your parents will be screwed severely.

So please be informed and stay away from this college and inform all of others also and suggest them not to take admission in this college even if they are unable to get admissions in other colleges.