Aug 07 2014 : The Times of India (Delhi)

UGC bans dissection in all colleges

Ekatha.Ann@timesgroup.com

Chennai





UGC has banned dissection of animals for academic purposes either by students or teachers at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels on college and varsity campuses.UGC's decision, which comes following sustained pressure from activists and an observation that many of the animals used for dissection were caught from their natural habitat, is an improvement on the partial ban on dissection it had issued in 2011 -when it allowed teachers to perform dissection as students watched, while postgraduate students were allowed to dissect unprotected species.