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

8. Duties and Responsibilities of the Commission and the Councils.-
8.1 The Commission shall, with regard to providing facilitating communication of information
regarding incidents of ragging in any institution, take the following steps, namely;
a) The Commission shall establish, fund and operate, a toll-free Anti-Ragging
Helpline, operational round the clock, which could be accessed by students in
distress owing to ragging related incidents.
b) Any distress message received at the Anti-Ragging Helpline shall be
simultaneously relayed to the Head of the Institution, the Warden of the Hostels,
the Nodal Officer of the affiliating University, if the incident reported has taken
place in an institution affiliated to a University, the concerned District authorities
and if so required, the District Magistrate, and the Superintendent of Police, and
shall also be web enabled so as to be in the public domain simultaneously for the
media and citizens to access it.
c) The Head of the Institution shall be obliged to act immediately in response to the
information received from the Anti-Ragging Helpline as at sub-clause (b) of this
clause.
d) The telephone numbers of the Anti-Ragging Helpline and all the important
functionaries in every institution, Heads of institutions, faculty members, members
of the anti-ragging committees and anti ragging squads, district and sub-divisional
authorities and state authorities, Wardens of hostels, and other functionaries or
authorities where relevant, shall be widely disseminated for access or to seek help
in emergencies.
e) The Commission shall maintain an appropriate data base to be created out of
affidavits, affirmed by each student and his/her parents/guardians and stored
electronically by the institution, either on its or through an agency to be designated
by it; and such database shall also function as a record of ragging complaints
received, and the status of the action taken thereon.

f) The Commission shall make available the database to a non-governmental agency
to be nominated by the Central Government, to build confidence in the public
and also to provide Information of non compliance with these Regulations to the
Councils and to such bodies as may be authorised by the Commission or by ‘the
Central Government.
8.2 The Commission shall take the following regulatory steps, namely;
a) The Commission shall make it mandatory for the institutions to incorporate in
their prospectus, the directions of the Central Government or the State Level
Monitoring Committee with regard to prohibition and consequences of ragging,
and that non-compliance with these Regulations and directions so provided, shall
be considered as lowering of academic standards by the institution, therefore
making it liable for appropriate action.
b) The Commission shall verify that the institutions strictly comply with the their
requirement of getting the affidavits from the students and parents/guardians as
envisaged under these Regulations.

c) The Commission shall include a specific condition in the Utilization Certificate,
in respect of any financial assistance or grants-in-aid to any institution under
any of the general or special schemes of the Commission, that the institution has
complied with the anti-ragging measures.

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