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

e) “Council” means a body so constituted by an Act of Parliament or an Act of
any State Legislature for setting, or co-ordinating or maintaining standards in the
relevant areas of higher education, such as the All India Council for Technical
Education (AICTE), the Bar Council of India (BCI), the Dental Council of India
(DCI), the Distance Education Council (DEC), the Indian Council of Agricultural
Research ((CAR), the Indian Nursing Council (INC), the Medical Council of
India (MCI), the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), the Pharmacy
Council of India (PCI), etc. and the State Higher Education Councils
f) “District Level Anti-Ragging Committee” means the Committee, headed by the
District Magistrate, constituted by the State Government, for the control and
elimination of ragging in institutions within the jurisdiction of the district.

g) “Head of the institution” means the Vice-Chancellor in case of a university or a
deemed to be university, the Principal or the Director or such other designation as
the executive head of the institution or the college is referred.

h) “Fresher” means a student who has been admitted to an institution and who is
undergoing his/her first year of study in such institution.
i) “Institution” means a higher educational Institution, including, but not limited to
an university, a deemed to be university, a college, an institute, an institution of
national importance set up by an Act of Parliament or a constituent unit of such
institution, imparting higher education beyond 12 years of schooling leading to,
but not necessarily culminating in, a degree (graduate, postgraduate and/or higher
level) and/or to a university diploma.

j) “NAAC” means the National Academic and Accreditation Council established by
the Commission under section 12(ccc) of the Act;
k) “State Level Monitoring Cell” means the body constituted by the State Government
for the control and elimination of ragging in institutions within the jurisdiction of
the State, established under a State Law or on the advice of the
Central Government, as the case may be.
(2) Words and expressions used and not defined herein but defined in the Act or in the
General Clauses Act, 1897, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in
the Act or in the General Clauses Act, 1897, as the case may be.

5. Measures for prohibition of ragging at the institution level:-
a) No institution or any part of it thereof, including its elements, including, but not limited
to, the departments, constituent units, colleges, centres of studies and all its premises,
whether academic, residential, playgrounds, or canteen, whether located within the
campus or outside, and in all means of transportation of students, whether public or
private, accessed by students for the pursuit of studies in such institutions, shall permit
or condone any reported incident of ragging in any form; and all institutions shall take
all necessary and required measures, including but not limited to the provisions of these
Regulations, to achieve the objective of eliminating ragging, within the institution or
outside,
b) All institutions shall take action in accordance with these Regulations against those
found guilty of ragging and/or abetting ragging, actively or passively, or being part of
a conspiracy to promote ragging.

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