AntiRagging

Rules & Regulations for Prevention and Prohibition of Ragging

 

Various Types of Ragging

The Hon’ble Supreme Court has, inter-alia, mentioned the following types of ragging:-

  1. Ragging has several aspects with, among others, psychological, social, political, economic, cultural, and academic
  2. Any act that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of a student should be considered within the academics related aspect of ragging; similarly, exploiting the services of a junior student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of seniors is also an aspect of academics related ragging prevalent in many institutions, particularly in the technical
  3. Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a junior student by senior students should be considered an aspect of ragging for ragging economic
  4. Any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestured, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person can be put in the category of ragging with criminal
  5. Any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, snail-mails, blogs, public insults should be considered within the psychological aspects of ragging. This aspect would also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to others; the absence of preparing ‘freshers’ in the run up to their admission to higher education and life in hostels also can be ascribed as a psychological aspect of ragging – coping skills in interaction with seniors or strangers can be imparted by parents as well. Any act that affects the mental health and self- confidence of students also can be described in terms of the psychological aspects of
  6. The human rights perspective of ragging involves the injury caused to the fundamental right to human dignity through humiliation heaped on junior students by seniors; often resulting in the extreme step of suicide by the victims.
  • Actions to be taken against students for indulging and abetting ragging in technical institutions Universities including Deemed to be University imparting technical education:-
  1. The punishment to be meted out to the persons indulged in ragging has to be exemplary and justifiably harsh to act as a deterrent against recurrence of such incidents.
  2. Every single incident of ragging a First Information Report (FIR) must be filed without exception by the institutional authorities with the local police authorities.
  3. The Anti-Ragging Committee of the institution shall take an appropriate decision, with regard to punishment or otherwise, depending on the facts of each incident of ragging and nature and gravity of the incident of ragging.
  4. a) Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offence as established the possible punishments for those found guilty of ragging at the institution level shall be any one or any combination of the following:-
    1.      Cancellation of admission
    2.     Suspension from attending classes
    3.   Withholding/withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefits
    4.    Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or other evaluation process
    5.      Withholding results
    6.    Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.

   Suspension/expulsion from the hostel

  •   Rustication from the institution for period ranging from 1 to 4 semesters
  •       Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution.

 

  • Collective punishment: when the persons committing or abetting the crime of ragging are not identified, the institution shall resort to collective punishment as a deterrent to ensure community pressure on the potential raggers.
  1. An appeal against the order of punishment by the Anti-Ragging Committee shall lie,
  2. In case of an order of an institution, affiliated to or constituent part, of the University, to the Vice-Chancellor of the University;
  3. In case of an order of a University, to its Chancellor.
  1. In case of an institution of national importance created by an Act of Parliament, to the Chairman or Chancellor of the institution, as the case may be.
  2. The institutional authorities shall intimate the incidents of ragging occurred in their premises along with actions taken to the Council form time to time.

 

S. No

Name of the Member

Designation

Role

1

Dr. P.Kumar Babu

Principal

Chairperson

2

Dr. PSRK Prasad

HOD, H&S

Nodal Officer

3

Dr.V.Anil Kumar

HOD,EEE

Member

4

Mrs.B.Supraja

HOD, CE

Member

5

Dr. T. Subrahmanyam

Associate Professor,Dept.of H&S

Member

6

Mr.P.Rajesh

Assistant  Professor, Dept.of ECE

Member

7

Mr.M.Praveen Kumar

Assistant Professor, Dept.of CSE

Member

8

Mrs.Mercy lydia

Assistant Professor, Dept.of ME

Member

9

Mr.P.Narasimha swami

Assistant Professor, Dept.of ECE

Member

10

Mrs. S. Narmadha

Assistant Professor, Dept.of EEE

Member

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