Anti Ragging
Committee
Anti Ragging Committee
- Ensures that at least one faculty member will be present at any particular time at all the locations to avoid ragging activities.
- Takes precautions to avoid ragging activities at other locations like bus stops and gives instructions to the student volunteers and secret informers at various boarding points.
- Canvases about anti-ragging in the forms of Flexes, Posters and Boards in college premises and surrounding areas where there is a chance of ragging.
- Arranges counseling and guidance programs arranged for the fresher’s and parents regarding ragging.
ANTI RAGGING–MONITORING CELL
Ragging is strictly prohibited inside and outside the Institute campus. The Anti-Ragging Committee constituted for this purpose by the Institute is empowered to take an immediate action against any untoward incident and also to counsel the fresher. Students seeking admission shall have to furnish undertaking in this regard. To enhance familiarity and to acclimatize the fresher to the academic and social environment of the campus, the institute organizes an orientation session in the first week of the new academic calendar.
All the students admitted under the institute will have to observe and abide by the discipline rules prescribed by the Institute/Institute and he/she will submit to the disciplinary jurisdiction of the Head of the Institution and other competent officers or authorities or bodies of the Institute as the case may be and in this respect he / she has to submit the declaration in the proforma at the time of admission.
WHAT CONSTITUTES RAGGING
As per the UGC Regulations on curbing the menace of ragging in Higher educational institutions, 2009
Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:
a) Any conduct by any student or students whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or any other student.
b) Indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities by any student or students which causesoris likely to cause annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other student.
c) Asking any student to do any act which such student will not in the ordinary course do and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, or torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of such fresher or any other student.
d) Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher.
e) Exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.
f) Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students
g) Any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other student.
i) Any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher
j) Any act of physical or mental abuse (including bullying and exclusion) targeted at another student (fresher or otherwise) on the ground of colour, race, religion, caste, ethnicity, gender (including transgender), sexual orientation, appearance, nationality, regional origins, linguistic identity, place of birth, place of residence or economic background.
PUNISHMENTS
Anti-Ragging Committee may, depending on the nature and gravity of the guilt established by the Anti-Ragging Squad, award, to those found guilty, one or more of the following punishments, namely;
a) Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges.
b) Withholding/withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefits.
c) Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or other evaluation process.
d) Withholding results.
e) Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
f) Suspension/expulsion from the hostel.
g) Cancellation of admission.
h) Rustication from the institution for period ranging from one to four semesters.
i) Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution for a specified period.
j) Provided that where the persons committing or abetting the act of ragging are not identified, the institution