Guidelines for Anti Ragging
- any conduct by any student or students whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or any other student;
- indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities by any student or students 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 do any act which such student will not in the ordinary course do and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, or 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 other student or a fresher;
- exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.
- any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students;
- 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;
- any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, posts, public insults which would also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other student;
- any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other student.
Acts constitute as Ragging:
Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:
- Institute tries to create cohesive environment between the senior and junior students, by organizing some sports and cultural activities, with the purpose of smooth introduction of new students with existing one.
- Apart from Anti ragging committee institute has their Anti ragging squad, together they try to create healthy environment for students. Time to time they take surprise visit in premises of campus to check that no incidence of ragging take place.
- Any student who is victim of ragging can directly contact any of the anti-ragging committee members. For this purpose - Names and contact detail of all members of anti-ragging committee are displayed on college notice boards.
- Institute has obtained an affidavit from every student, parent/ guardian regarding anti-ragging.
Preventive Measures:
Anti-Ragging Committee ensures the regulatory requirements provided by AICTE are fulfilled by the institute.
- Cancellation of admission
- Suspension from attending classes
- Withholding/withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefits
- Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or other evaluation process Withholding results
- Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
- 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.
Actions to be taken against students indulged in ragging:
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:-
Anti-Ragging Committee
Name of the Person | Designation |
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Dr. Hitesh Ruparel | Chairman |
Mr. Shailesh Goyal | Representative of Local Media, Simulations (Independent Public Affairs Management Firm) |
Mrs. Bhavnaben Pandya | Representative of NGO Involved Youth Activities, Manager, Utthan Talim Kendra (NGO for Mentally & Socio economically Challenged People) |
Dr Sneha Shukla | Representative of Faculty Member |
Dr. Neelam Purey | Representative of Faculty Member |
Mr. Pinalkumar Sharaf (Parent of Sachi Sharaf, First year student) | Representative of Parents |
Mr. Utpal Shah (Parent of Mili Shah, MBA–Second Year student) | Representative of Parents |
Mili Shah (MBA–Second year student) | Representative of Students |
Ms. Neha Mehta | Representative of Non-Teaching Staff |
Ms. Aesha Shah | Representative of Non-Teaching Staff |
Dr. Avni Patel | Member Secretary |
Anti Ragging Squad
Name of the Person | Designation |
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Dr. Sneha Shukla | Senior most faculty - Chairperson |
Dr. Neelam Purey | Faculty Member - Member |
Ms. Neha Mehta | Faculty Member - Member |
Ms. Neha Mehta | Non-Teaching member - Member |
Dr. Avni Patel | Faculty member - Member Secretary |