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

f) Every institution shall, at the end of each academic year, in order to promote the
objectives of these Regulations, constitute a Mentoring Cell consisting of sturients
volunteering to be Mentors for freshers, in the succeeding academic year; and
there shall be as many levels or tiers of Mentors as the number of batches in the
Institution, at the rate of one Mentor for six freshers and one Mentor of a higher
level for six Mentors of the lower level.

g) Every University shall constitute a body to be known as Monitoring Cell on
Ragging, which shall coordinate with the affiliated colleges and institutions under
the domain of the University to achieve the objectives of these Regulations; and
the Monitoring Cell shall call for reports from the Heads of institutions in regard
to the activities of the Anti-Ragging Committees, Anti-Ragging Squads, and the
Mentoring Cells at the institutions, and it shall also keep itself abreast of the
decisions of the District level Anti-Ragging Committee headed by the District
Magistrate.
h) The Monitoring Cell shall also review the efforts made by institutions to publicize
anti-ragging measures, soliciting of affidavits from parents/guardians and from
students, each academic year, to abstain from ragging activities or willingness to
be penalized for violations; and shall function as the prime mover for Initiating
action, on the part of the appropriate authorities of the university for amending
the Statutes or Ordinances or Bye-laws to facilitate the implementation of anti-
ragging measures at the level of the institution.

6.4 Every institution shall take the following other measures, namely;
a) Each hostel or a place where groups of students reside, forming part of the
institution, shall have a full-time Warden, to be appointed by the institution as
per the eligibility criteria laid down for the post reflecting both the command
and control aspects of maintaining discipline and preventing incidents of ragging
within the hostel, as well as the softer skills of counselling and communicating
with the youth outside the class-room situation; and who shall reside within the
hostel, or at the very least, in the close vicinity thereof.

b) The Warden shall be accessible at all hours and be available on telephone and
other modes of communication, and for the purpose the Warden shall be provided
with a mobile phone by the institution, the number of which shall be publicised
among all students residing in the hostel.

c) The institution shall review and suitably enhance the powers of Wardens; and
the security personnel posted in hostels shall be under the direct control of the
Warden and their performance shall be assessed by them.

d) The professional counsellors referred to under clause (o) of Regulation 6.1 of
these Regulations shall, at the time of admission, counsel freshers and/or any
other student(s) desiring counselling, in order to prepare them for the life ahead,
particularly in regard to the life in hostels and to the extent possible, also involve
parents and teachers in the counselling sessions.
e) The institution shall undertake measures for extensive publicity against
ragging by means of audio-visual aids, counselling sessions, workshops,
painting and design competitions among students and such other measures, as
it may deem fit.

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