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

f) In order to enable a student or any person to communicate with the Anti- Ragging
Helpline, every institution shall permit unrestricted access to mobile phones and
public phones in hostels and campuses, other than in class-rooms, seminar halls,
library, and in such other places that the institution may deem it necessary to
restrict the use of phones.
g) The faculty of the institution and its non-teaching staff, which includes but is
not limited to the administrative staff, contract employees, security guards and
employees of service providers providing services within the institution, shall be
sensitized towards the ills of ragging, its prevention and the consequences thereof.
h) The institution shall obtain an undertaking from every employee of the institution
including all teaching and non-teaching members of staff, contract labour
employed in the premises either for running canteen or as watch and ward staff
or for cleaning or maintenance of the buildings/lawns and employees of service
providers providing services within the institution, that he/she would report
promptly any case of ragging which comes to his/her notice.
i) The institution shall make a provision In the service rules of its employees for
issuing certificates of appreciation to such members of the staff who report
incidents of ragging, which will form part of their service record.
j) The institution shall give necessary instructions to the employees of the canteens
and messing, whether that of the institution or that of a service provider providing
this service, or their employers, as the case may be, to keep a strict vigil in the area
of their work and to report the incidents of ragging to the Head of the institution or
members of the Anti-Ragging Squad or members of the Anti-Ragging Committee
or the Wardens, as may be required.
k) All Universities awarding a degree in education at any level, shall be required
to ensure that institutions imparting Instruction in such courses or conducting
training programme for teachers include inputs relating to anti- ragging and the
appreciation of the relevant human rights, as well as inputs on topics regarding
sensitization against corporal punishments and checking of bullying amongst
students, so that every teacher is equipped to handle at least the rudiments of the
counselling approach.
l) Discreet random surveys shall be conducted amongst the freshers every fortnight
during the first three months of the academic year to verify and cross- check
whether the institution is indeed free of ragging or not and for the purpose the
institution may design Its own methodology of conducting such surveys.
m) The institution shall cause to have an entry, apart from those relating to general
conduct and behaviour, made in the Migration/Transfer Certificate issued to the
student while leaving the institution, as to whether the student has been punished
for committing or abetting an act of ragging, as also whether the student has
displayed persistent violent or aggressive behaviour or any inclination to harm
others, during his course of study in the institution.
n) Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations with regard to obligations
and responsibilities pertaining to the authorities or members of bodies prescribed
above, it shall be the general collective responsibility of all levels and sections of
authorities or functionaries including members of the faculty and employees of
the institution, whether regular or temporary, and employees of service providers
providing service within the institution, to prevent or to act promptly against the
occurrence of ragging or any incident of ragging which comes to their notice.
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