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Regulations pertaining to Student’s Grievance Redressal, Promotion of Equity, Anti-Ragging Measures, and
Prevention of Sexual Harassment etc.:

University Grants Commission
Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational
Institutions, 2009

F.1-16/2007(CPP-II)

PREAMBLE.

In view of the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the matter of “University of Kerala
v/s. Council, Principals, Colleges and others” in SLP no. 24295 of 2006 dated 16.05.2007
and that dated 8.05.2009 in Civil Appeal number 887 of 2009, and in consideration of the
determination of the Central Government and the University Grants Commission to prohibit,
prevent and eliminate the scourge of ragging including 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, or indulging in rowdy or indisciplined
activities by any student or students which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or
psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other student
or 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, 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, in all higher education institutions in the country,
and thereby, to provide for the healthy development, physically and psychologically, of all
students, the University Grants Commission, in consultation with the Councils, brings forth this
Regulation.
In exercise of the powers conferred by Clause (g) of sub-section (1) of Section 26 of the
University Grants Commission Act, 1956, the University Grants Commission hereby makes the
following Regulations, namely;

1. Title, commencement and applicability.-
1.1 These regulations shall be called the “UGC Regulations on Curbing the Menace of
Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009”.
1.2 They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
1.3 They shall apply to all the institutions coming within the definition of an University
under sub-section (f) of section (2) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956,
and to all institutions deemed to be a university under Section 3 of the University
Grants Commission Act, 1956, to all other higher educational institutions, or elements
of such universities or institutions, including its departments, constituent units and all
the premises, whether being academic, residential, playgrounds, canteen, or other such
premises of such universities, deemed universities and higher educational institutions,
whether located within the campus or outside, and to all means of transportation of
students, whether public or private, accessed by students for the pursuit of studies in
such universities, deemed universities and higher educational institutions.

2. Objectives.-
To prohibit 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, or indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities by any student or students
which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear

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