Anti Ragging:
Ragging is Prohibited as per the decision of the Honorable Supreme Court of India and directions have been given vide SLP No. 24295 of 2006 dtd 16-05-2007 and in Civil Appeal number 887 of 2009, dtd 08-05-2009. Maharashtra Prohibition of Ragging Act 1999 which is in effect from 15th May 1999 has following provisions for Action against Ragging. Ragging is prohibited as per the decision of the Supreme Court of India in Writ Petition No. (C) 656/1998. AICTE has framed regulation which has been notified vide F.No.37-3/Legal/AICTE/2009 dated July 1, 2009 (available on AICTE web portal at WWW.AICTE-india.org) Grievance>Anti-Ragging) on curbing the menace of ragging.
Ragging within and outside of any educational Institution is prohibited. Whosoever directly or indirectly commits, participates in, abets, or propagates ragging within or outside Educational Institution shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term up to 2 years and/ or penalty, which may extend to ten thousand rupees.
Any student convicted of an offence of ragging shall be dismissed from an educational institute and such student shall not be admitted in any other educational institute for a period of five years from the date of order of such dismissal.
What Constitutes Ragging?
Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:
- 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, 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.
Capitation Fees:
No Capitation fees are collected at this institution by adhering to Prohibition of Capitation Fee Act 1987.