Anti Raging Cell
Introduction:
Mahatma Jyotiba Fule College of Social Work, Yavatmal, is dedicated to developing a culture of academic excellence, individual development, and respect for all its students. In compliance with the guidelines of the University Grants Commission (UGC) directives, Savitribai Phule Pune University (SGBAU) regulations, and the stringent requirements of The Prohibition of Ragging Act, 2011, the college has formed an Anti-Ragging Cell. This cell serves as a bulwark in maintaining the dignity and welfare of all the students so that there is no ragging on campus and learning and growth can take place without fear or intimidation.
| Sr. No | Name | Designation |
| 1 | Dr. Sunil P Washimkar (Principal) | Chairperson |
| 2 | Miss. Shubhangi L. Agashe | Police Department |
| 3 | Asst.Prof.Swati M.Ugemuge | Member |
| 4 | Dr. Rahul G. Gondane | Member |
| 5 | Mr. Swatej Deshmukh | Member |
| 6 | Shri. Ashok T. Khedkar | Local Citizens |
| 7 | Shri. Tushar R. Deshmukh | Media Representative |
| 8 | Shri. Pradip C. Shende | Social Agencies Representative |
| 9 | Shri. Sanjay B. Jadhao | Parents Representative |
| 10 | Ashish K. Waghmare | Students Representative |
| 11 | Ku.Jayashri S. Rathod | Students Representative |
| 12 | Dr. Vinodkumar S Chopkar | Co-Ordinator |
Aim: Anti-Ragging Cell is to stop ragging in all its manifestations so that there is a safe, secure, and favorable learning atmosphere on campus for all the students.
Objectives:
- To generate widespread awareness among students, employees, and faculty members regarding the threat of ragging and its profound effects according to The Prohibition of Ragging Act, 2011.
- To actively identify and respond to any probable cases or threats of ragging before they are able to take place.
- To offer an easily accessible and confidential platform for students to report any incident or complaint of ragging.
- To investigate all the reported incidents of ragging on a fair, impartial, and time-bound basis and take proper disciplinary actions as per the UGC, SGBAU, and the Act.
- To encourage a healthy college environment that discourages ragging and promotes friendship, mutual respect, and healthy interaction among students.
Activities:
- Conduction of periodic workshops, seminars, guest lectures, and poster competitions on anti-ragging, stressing the legal provisions and psychological effects.
- Putting up anti-ragging notices, conducting roadshows, and providing informative pamphlets and posters throughout the campus.
- Having a visible and accessible complaint box and helpline for reporting ragging incidents by students confidentially.
- Offering counselling services and support to ragging victims and their families.
- Carrying out serious investigations into all cases reported and suggesting stringent disciplinary actions against offenders according to the college anti-ragging policy and law.
- Monitoring common spaces, hostels, and online interactions actively to identify and deter ragging.
- Organizing orientation for fresh admission students so that they could be sensitized against ragging and the zero-tolerance policy of the college.
Anti Ragging Rules and regulation
Ragging is totally prohibited in HBT Medical College, and anyone found guilty of ragging and/or abetting ragging, whether actively or passively, or being a part of a conspiracy to promote ragging, is liable to be punished in accordance with Maharashtra anti ragging act, as well as under the provisions of any penal law for the time being in force. ?
What is Ragging?
“Ragging in essence is a human right abuse…….in present times shocking incidents of ragging have come to the notice …..The student is physically tortured or psychologically terrorized….” Supreme Court of India (Feb. 11 2009)
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 or any other student.
- Any act of physical or mental abuse targeted at another student on grounds of colour, race, religion, caste, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, appearance, regional origins, linguistic identity, place of birth /residence, or economic background.
Punishable Ingredients of Ragging:
- Abetment to ragging
- Criminal conspiracy to rag
- Unlawful assembly and rioting while ragging
- Violation of decency and morals through ragging
- Injury to body causing hurt or grievous hurt\Wrongful restraint
- Wrongful confinement
- Use of criminal force
- Extortion
- Assault/sexual offences/Unnatural offences
- Criminal intimidation
- Offences against property
- Attempt to commit any or above of the offences
- Any offence flowing from the definition of ragging
Punishments under Indian Penal Code against acts of Ragging:
Every single incident of ragging or abetting in ragging puts an obligation on the institution to get the FIR registered. There are provisions in the IPC, which can be used by a student to register an FIR in the nearest Police Station. These provisions are:
- 294 – Obscene acts and songs
- 323 – punishment for voluntarily causing hurt
- 324 – voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapon or means
- 325 – punishment for voluntarily causing grievous hurt
- 326 – voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapon
- 339 – Wrongful Restraint
- 340 – Wrongful Confinement
- 341 – Punishment for Wrongful Restraint
- 342 – Punishment for Wrongful Confinement
- 506 – Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
Administrative Action in The Event of Ragging:
- 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 representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
- Suspension/ expulsion from the hostel.
- Cancellation of admission.
- Rustication from the institution for period ranging from one to four semesters.
- Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution for a specified period?
- Fine up to Rs. 25,000/-
- Imprisonment – six months to three years
- Where the persons committing or abetting the act of ragging are not identified, the institution shall resort to collective punishment?
How to report ragging: The UGC has installed a National Anti-Ragging Helpline No. 1800-180-5522 (24X7 Toll free no.), helpline@antiragging.in where anyone can register complain.
- It can be notified through contact details of ARC members
- Any other member of the institute (HOU, colleagues)
- External source (Through family members, friends)
- External source (Through family members, friends)
Procedure for handling complaints:
- Informing the Chairperson (within 2 hours of receipt of complaint)
- ARC will conduct a preliminary on the spot enquiry and collect the details, submit the
- Preliminary report to the chair person (within 24 hours)
- ARC will conduct a detailed enquiry gather evidences and submit its report along with the recommendations to the chairperson in 15 days.
- The Chairperson will take action as per the recommendations.
- If the victim student / parent is not satisfied with the action taken by the committee, a FIR should be filed with the local police
INFORMATION ABOUT ANTI-RAGGING AND IT’S REGULATIONS