PONDICHERRY
ENGINEERING COLLEGEPONDICHERRY
ENGINEERING COLLEGE
PONDICHERRY
NO.PEC/ACA/RAG/A1/2009/
2499/
Date: 17.07.2009
CIRCULAR
Sub: PEC
– Steps for Curbing the menace of ragging – Reg.
All
the students are informed to
follow the Campus Rules and code of
conduct for students hosted in the college website.
1. Ragging is totally prohibited in the campus. If any student
is found indulge in ragging, severe action will be taken against the
student.
2. Based on the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India ‘s
Direction, the UGC has issued Regulations and
Guide lines. Some of the guidelines are as under:
a.
The UGC Regulations on “What Constitutes Ragging” is given
in Annexure
–I
b. The UGC
Guidelines on the award of punishment to
those found guilty are also given in
the Annexure II.
c. As per the
Campus Rules and Code of Conduct for students
the Minor and Major Penalty that may be imposed on the student
has also been given in the Annexure-III
for information of the students.
d. As per the guidelines the
college should obtain undertaking from the students as well as
from parents, that the students will
not indulge in any form of ragging.
Format of the undertaking is attached in annexure IV
& V.
All the students should submit the undertaking signed by them as well as their parents to the concerned HOD on or before 31-07-2009 without fail.
The
Anti-ragging squads for the college and the hostels will make round the clock
surprise visits.
All
the Senior students are once again instructed not to indulge in any form of
ragging. Collection of money forcefully from
the freshers will also be
considered as a form
of ragging. In case of any
trace of ragging by the students,
severe punishment will be imposed.
In
this connection all Heads of
Departments are instructed to bring the above
Rules and regulations to the
notice of senior students for
prevention and prohibition of
ragging in this college. The
circular and the annexure are to be displayed
in the Departmental Notice Board for reference of the students. A copy of the
circular along with annexure I to
V may be issued to each
student..
PRINCIPAL
Encl: As stated
above.
To
1. All the
Heads of Departments, PEC.
2.General
Notice Board, PEC.
3. Department
Notice Board
4. Hostel
Notice Board.
5. Copy to each
student through HOD.
What
Constitutes Ragging:
Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:
a.
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;
b.
indulging in rowdy or in disciplined 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;
c.
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;
d.
any act by a senior student
that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic
activity of any other student or a fresher;
e.
exploiting the services of a
fresher or any other student for completing the academic
tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students .
f.
any act of financial
extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student
by students;
g.
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;
h.
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;
i.
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.
Administrative
action in the event of ragging
1.
Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges.
2.
Withholding/withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefits.
3.
Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or other evaluation
process.
4.
withholding results.
5.
Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or
International
meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
6.
Suspension/Expulsion from the hostel.
7.
Cancellation of admission.
8.
Rustication from the institution for period ranging from one to four
semesters.
9.
Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to
any other institution for a specified period
Penalties
The
following are the penalties that may be imposed on a student.
Minor Penalties