Anti-Ragging Policy in the Institution

The institution has formulated Anti-Ragging committee, to ensure no such activities take place within the campus. The anti ragging committee shall

  1. Keep continuous watch & vigil on ragging incidents
  2. Promptly deal with the incidents of ragging brought to the notice & summarily punish the guilty putting forth its finding/suggestion before the authority competent to take action
  3. Ensure compliance of the provisions of the Kerala Prohibition Ragging Act 1998 (Act 10 of 1998)

 

As per the Raghavan Committee constituted by 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 dimensions.
  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 professional institutions in medicine.
  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 dimensions.
  4. 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 can be put in the category of ragging with criminal dimensions.
  5. Any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, snail-mails, 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 aspect of ragging.
  6. The political aspect of ragging is apparent from the fact that incidents of ragging are low in institutions which promote democratic participation of students in representation and provide an identity to students to participate in governance and decision making within the institute bodies.
  7. 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.


Mode of Complaint Registration at the Institutional Level

The student shall give a written complaint in his/her own words to the head of the institution or in their absence can be handed over to any members of the anti-ragging committee. Due action will be taken based on the enquiry report submitted by the committee to the head of the institution.

Actions taken at the Institutional Level

Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offence as established by the Anti-Ragging Committee of the institution, the possible punishments for those found guilty of ragging at the institution level shall be any one or any combination of the following

  1. Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges
  2. Withholding/withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefits
  3. Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or other evaluation process
  4. Withholding results
  5. Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, yoUth festival, etc.
  6. Suspension/ Expulsion from the hostel
  7. Cancellation of admission
  8. Rustication from the institution for period ranging from 1 to 4 semesters
  9. Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution for a specified period
  10. Fine ragging banishment: When the persons committing or abetting the crime of ragging are not identified, the institution shall resort to collective punishment between Rupees 25,000/- and Rupees 1 lakh

 

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