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 indiscipline 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.

Actions Suggested by AICTE against students indulging and abetting in Ragging

The punishment to be meted out to the persons indulged in ragging has to be exemplary and justifiably harsh to act as a deterrent against the recurrence of such incidents. The students who are found to be indulging in ragging should be debarred from taking admission in any technical institution in India. Every single incident of ragging a First Information Report (FIR) must be filed without exception by the institutional authorities with the local police authorities. Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offense as established by the Anti-Ragging Committee of the institution, the possible punishments for those found guilty of ragging at the institution level shall be any one or any combination of the following.

A student found guilty of ragging in the campus or event outside the campus shall be liable to one or more of the following punishments:

• Cancellation of Admission.
• Debarring from appearing in any Midterm test / University Examination.
• Withholding Results.
• Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges.
• Withdrawing/Withholding scholarships/Fellowship and other benefits.
• Expulsion from college/Hostel.
• Entry in the character / Transfer Certificate regarding the punishment given for any Act ,if a ragging complaint is filed with the police leading to arrest..
• Fine of Rupees 25,000/-
• Collective punishment: when the persons committing or abetting the crime of ragging are not identified, the institution shall resort to collective punishment as a deterrent to ensure community pressure on the potential raggers.
• The institutional authority shall intimate the incidents of ragging that occurred in their premises along with actions taken to the Council immediately after the occurrence of such incident and inform the status of the case from time to time.
• Courts should make an effort to ensure that cases involving ragging are taken up on a priority basis to send the correct message that ragging is not only to be discouraged but also to be dealt with sternness.

We are aware that ragging is an offence and it is punishable under the Act – Extracts from Tamil Nadu Government Gazette dated 29/01/1997 as per Notification No.8 of 1997, Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Ragging Act.

Ragging in any form within and even outside the educational Institution shall be punished with imprisonment for the term which may extend to 2 years.  Therefore, students are advised not to involve in any such ragging incidents.

Anti – Ragging Committee is hereby re-constituted with the following members with immediate effect for the Academic Year 2023 – 2024.  This committee will monitor the activities of the students on regularly.