Aim

To root out all its forms in college, preventing its occurrence by following the provisions of rules and regulations, and punishing those who indulge in ragging, with the provided regulations and the appropriate law in force.

Terms of reference

• Order from the Supreme Court of India in a civil petition of 2009.
• University Grants Commission Regulation on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions 2009.
• G.O from the higher education department.

What constitutes Ragging

• Any disorderly conduct, whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing or handling with rudeness of any other student.
• Indulging in undisciplined activities that are likely to cause hardship or psychological or physical harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student.
• Asking the student to do any act or perform something which such a student would not do 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 of a fresher or a junior student.
• Teasing, embarrassing, humiliating, assaulting or using criminal force or criminal Intimidation. Wrongful restraining or confining or causing grievous hurt, kidnapping, molesting, or committing unnatural offence or causing death or abetting suicide.

Prohibition of Ragging

• Ragging within the college campus, including the hospital and hostel, is strictly prohibited.

• No person, including students/staff/faculty / shall participate in, abet or propagate ragging in any form.

Measures of prohibition of ragging at the institution level

• Ragging in all its forms be totally banned in the entire college, including in departments and all its premises, whether located within the public or private.
• The college will take strict action against those who engage in ragging and/or abetting ragging.
• The college will strictly observe the provisions of the act of the central government and the state government to prohibit ragging in all its forms.

Before Admission

• The advertisement for admission will clearly mention “ragging is totally banned in the college.
• The college prospectus has information about the total banning of ragging.
• Creating awareness through widespread publicity among the students, parents and guardians before the academic session. Eg, Posters, Notices, and information from the newspapers will be displayed at least 10 days before the commencement of the course in all places, including hostels, corridors, common rooms and other entry points.
• At the commencement of the academic session, the head of the institution will convene and address a meeting of various functionaries like faculty, parents/guardians, and student representatives to discuss the measures to be taken to prevent ragging in the college and steps to be taken to identify the offenders and punish them suitably.
• Students who are allotted hostel accommodation are required to submit three copies of details of parents and local guardian along with their Photographs.

On Admission

• Every fresher admitted to the college will be given the phone numbers of the Anti-Ragging Committee members and the Anti-Ragging Squads

• The head of the will create awareness and explain the consequences of ragging in the orientation Programme.
• Freshers are encouraged to report incidents of ragging, either as victims or even as witnesses.

At The End of the Academic Year

• At the end of the academic year, the principal will be informing the students who are completing the first year regarding ragging and punishments and appealing to them to impress upon their wards to desist from indulging when they come back at the beginning of the next academic session.

Setting up of committees and their functions

• The College of Nursing, SIHER, having anti ragging committee and an anti-ragging squad to eradicate the menace of ragging.

The members of the anti-ragging committees are

• Dr. Sarika Saxena, Principal, College of Nursing, SIHER.
• Asst. Prof. Uma Rani Convenor, Hostel Administrative officer, College of Nursing.
• Student Representative Body from first year to final year.

The members of the Anti-Ragging Squad

Asst. Prof. Uma Rani

Asst. Prof. Prabhat Kumar

Functions and responsibilities of the committee members

• The committee will receive complaints against phone calls and SMS around the clock, which could be accessed by students in distress owing to Ragging-related incidents.
• The committee will have the details of phone numbers of anti-ragging help line, head of the institution, faculty members, and members of the anti-ragging committee, anti-ragging squad and warden and hostel administrator.

• The committee will maintain the data created out of affidavits, affirmed by each student and his / her parents/guardians and stored by the institution.
• The committee will also maintain an alert vigil at all times.
• The committee will take an appropriate decision with punishment depending on the facts of each incident, nature and gravity of Ragging.
• Anti-ragging squads will make surprise raids on hostels and other places vulnerable to incidents of ragging and having the potential for ragging, and shall be empowered to inspect such places.
• Anti-ragging squads will conduct on-the-spot enquiries into any incidents of ragging and prepare a report along with recommendations to be submitted to the anti-ragging committee for action.
• The anti-ragging committee will conduct surveys among freshers during the first 3 months of the academic year to verify free of ragging.

Others measures

• The college has a full-time counsellor to provide counselling services to the students.
• The college is providing separate hostel facilities for the fresh students on the same campus and has a facility of a full-time warden to communicate, control, command, and counsel the students.
• Details of anti-ragging committee members with their contact information will be displayed on the college campus.
• The college obtains an undertaking from all teaching and non-teaching staff stating that he / she would report any case of ragging which comes to his / her knowledge.

 Awardable punishments

• Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offence established by the anti-ragging committee of the college, the possible punishment will be given as per the norms of the regulatory bodies.