Anti Ragging

Anti Ragging

Say No to Ragging!

College/University campus is a place wherein deep and lifelong rapports are formed and garnered. We, here at SRM strongly condemn any ragging or practices hinting to it and ensure a homely atmosphere. The students here in the university put forth their best effort to ensure that the upcoming freshers are welcomed into a friendly and warm environment tolerating of diversities and honing a sense of community and do not condone any sort of violent or unhealthy practices. Along with education, the faculty members ensure to impart good values and moral compass in the students, which sets apart SRM from other institutions.

What Constitutes Ragging?

Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts :

  • Any conduct by any student(s) whether by words spoken, written or by an act innuending to offensive remarks or rudeness towards a fresher or any student.
  • Indulging in crude or indisciplinary activities by any student(s) which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other student; asking any student to engage in act they aren’t consenting to which has the same effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of such fresher or any other student;
  • Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any student or a fresher.
  • Exploiting a student or a fresher with the virtue of completion of an academic task assigned to an individual or a group of students.
  • Any act nuancing to financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student(s).
  • 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 the wellbeing of the person.
  • Any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, posts, public insult, which would also include deriving perverse pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill by actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to any fresher or any other student.
  • Any act that taints the mental health, self-confidence or reputation of a fresher or any other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or to satiate the need for power, authority or superiority by a student over a fresher any other student.
  • In order to curtail ragging, the University has set strong Anti-Ragging Committee who sensitizes the students regarding this and keeps a check of such activities while in the campus.

UGC against Ragging

Actions Suggested by UGC / AICTE against students indulging and abetting in Ragging:

  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. The students who are found to be indulged in ragging should be debarred from taking admission in any technical institution in India.
  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. Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offense, 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. 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 processes
    5. Withholding results
    6. Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
    7. Suspension/expulsion from the hostel
    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.
    10. Fine of Rupees 25,000/-
    11. 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.
  4. The institutional authority shall intimate the incidents of ragging occurred in their premises along with actions taken to the Council immediately after the occurrence of such incident and inform the status of the case from time to time.
  5. Courts should make an effort to ensure that cases involving ragging are taken up on priority basis to send the correct message that ragging is not only to be discouraged but also to be dealt with sternness.