New Delhi, June 29 -- The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued show cause notices to 89 higher education institutions, including premier IITs, IIMs, IIITs, and AIIMS, for failing to comply with mandatory anti-ragging regulations.

The list includes 17 institutes of national importance, including IITs, IIMs, and NIDs. Institutions named in the defaulter list include IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Palakkad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Rohtak, IIM Tiruchirappalli, and AIIMS Raebareli, among others.

The list also includes Aligarh Muslim University, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, and Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Basar.

These institutes failed to submit the required anti-ragging undertakings fr...