What is Ragging

Any conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of harassing, teasing treating or handling with rudeness any other student, indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in fresher or a junior student or asking the students to do any avt or perform something which such student will not in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student.

Type of Ragging

  • Any act that prevents disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activitiy of a student
  • Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a junior student by senior student.
  • Any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, and stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person.
  • Any act or abuse by spoken works, emails, snail-mails, public insults should be considered with-in the psychological aspects of ragging.
  • Any act which damages fundamental right to human dignity through humiliation heaped on junior students by seniors: often resulting in the extreme step of suicide by the victims.

Ragging Punishments

  • Cancellation of admission
  • Suspension from attending classes
  • With holding / with drawing scholarship / fellowship and other benefits
  • Debarring from appearing in any test / examination or other evaluation process
  • Withholding result
  • 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.