What Constitutes Ragging?

As per the “UGC Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009” the following acts constitutes 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 indisciplined 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, post, 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

Reporting of Cases:

The aforementioned acts may be reported to the committee by any means and additionally through the following email address anti.ragging@vitap.ac.in and hotline number 7901059255

Scope of the Committee:

• ✧ The committee shall hear cases pertaining to the above mentioned acts coming to its notice in whichever form including email or telephone
• ✧ It has the authority to summon any person or get details from any office of the University upon receipt of complaint
• ✧ It shall video record the statements/ testimonies for transparency and future reference
• ✧ It shall maintain high levels of confidentiality in collection and storing the evidence
• ✧ The committee shall submit its report along with recommendations to the Office of Registrar within two weeks from the receipt of complaint
• ✧ For severe cases of ragging, the committee shall file an initial inquiry report and submit it to the Office of Registrar without any delay for further escalation as per Legal guidelines

The report submitted by the Anti-Ragging Committee shall be forwarded to the Vice-Chancellor for pronouncing the quantum of punishment and corrective measures to avoid recurrence of such acts.