Anti-Ragging Measures
24x7 Help Lines
Contact : 03222-281002; 03222-281003
Email : antiragging@iitkgp.ac.in
National Anti-Ragging Helpline
24×7 Toll Free: 1800-180-5522
Email : helpline@antiragging.in
Website : www.antiragging.in
UGC Monitoring Agency
Centre for Youth (C4Y)
Email : antiragging@c4yindia.org
Website : www.c4yindia.org
Contact : 0981-804-4577
Ragging is a grave crime and a cognizable offence (offence for which the police can arrest the offender without warrant). This heinous practice has caused deaths and suicides of many bright students in the recent past in India, forcing the Supreme Court to take a serious view of the menace and recommend deterrent and justifiably harsh punishment to those found guilty of ragging. Hence, a ragging complaint against a student, if found valid after investigation, may be construed as a criminal case, and the Institute is bound to take strong action against the offending student. Supreme Court has ruled that the punishment to be meted out has to be exemplary and harsh to act as a deterrent.
According to the Honourable Supreme Court of India, ragging means:
“Any disorderly conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of 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 a fresher or a junior student, or asking the students to do any act 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.”
- Conduct by any student or students, whether by words spoken or written or by an act that has the effect of teasing, treating, or handling a fresher or any other student with rudeness.
- Indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities by any student or students which causes or are likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological or physical harm or to raise the fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or any other student.
- Asking the students to do or perform any act which such a 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 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 other students.
- Any act of physical abuse including all of its variants, viz., sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, and forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person.
- Any act or abuse by spoken words, e-mails, posts, or public insults which would also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill, or showing off power, authority or superiority, or passively participating in the discomfiture to any 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 show off power, authority or superiority over any fresher.
Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offence as established by the Anti-Ragging Committee of the institution, the possible punishments for those found guilty of ragging at the institutional level shall be any one or any combination of the following:
- Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges
- Withholding/ withdrawing scholarship/ fellowship and other benefits
- Debarring from appearing in any test/ examination or other evaluation Process
- Withholding results
- Debarring from any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
- Suspension/ expulsion from the hostel
- Cancellation of admission
- Rustication from the institution for periods ranging from 1 to 4 semesters
- Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution for a specified period
- Fine ranging between Rupees 25,000/- and Rupees 1 lakh
Institute Level Anti-Ragging Committee:
- Dean of Students' Affairs – Chairman
Prof. Bhargab Maitra, Email: deansa@hijli.iitkgp.ac.in, Phone: 91-9434040738 - Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FoE&A) – Member
- Dean, Faculty of Sciences (FoS) – Member
- Dean of Dean, Faculty of Bio-Technology and Bio-Sciences (BTBS) - Member
- District Magistrate, Paschim Midnapore or his/her representative
- Associate Dean(s) of Students' Affairs – Member(s)
- Chairman, HMC – Member
- President Students' Gymkhana – Member
- Warden(s) of the Respective Halls of Residence – Member(s)
- Head, B. C. Roy Technology Hospital
- Vice-President Students' Gymkhana – Member
- Senior Security officer – Member
- Joint/Deputy Registrar, Academic – Member Secretary
Institute-Level Anti-Ragging Squad:
- Associate Dean of Students' Affairs (nominated by Dean of Students’ Affairs) - Chairman
- Other Associate Dean of Students' Affairs – Member(s)
- Chairman, HMC – Member
- Wardens of the Halls of Residence – Members
- President Students' Gymkhana – Member
- Vice-President Students' Gymkhana – Member
- Assistant Wardens of the Halls of Residence – Special Invitee
Hall (Hostel) Level Anti-Ragging Squad
- Warden of the Hall – Chairperson
- Assistant Warden (Maintenance) of the Hall – Convener
- All other Assistant Wardens – Members
- President of the Hall Council – Member
- Second Senate Member of the Hall Council – Member
- General Secretary (Students’ Welfare) – Member
- One student of the Hall (Not a member of the Hall council) to be nominated by the Warden – Member
- Hall Manager and/or Hall Supervisor – Member(s)
The Institute level Anti-Ragging Squads and Hall level Anti-ragging Squads shall work in co-ordination with the Institute level Anti-ragging committee and oversee the implementation of the recommendations.