The BMC standing committee has approved civic chief Praveen Pardeshi's decision to strengthen anti-ragging panels in city medical colleges. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has also decided to set up similar committees across all civic-run hospitals, including peripheral hospitals to avoid such unfortunate incidents in the future. This comes after the suicide of Dr Payal Tadvi, who hanged herself in her hostel room on May 22.

While the BMC is investigating into the suicide of Dr Tadvi over alleged caste-based harassment in Nair hospital. Yashvant Jadhav, BMC's standing committee president, said, "We need to provide a platform to doctors at all BMC-run hospitals to come out at any time if they face such harassment. We thus need to put the anti-ragging committee in place at all hospitals. This includes peripheral hospitals."