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

d) Any incident of ragging in an institution shall adversely affect its accreditation,
ranking or grading by NAAC or by any other authorised accreditation agencies
while assessing the institution for accreditation, ranking or grading purposes.
e) The Commission may accord priority in financial grants-in-aid to those institutions,
otherwise eligible to receive grants under section 128 of the Act, which report a
blemishless record in terms of there being no reported incident of ragging.
f) The Commission shall constitute an Inter-Council Committee, consisting of
representatives of the various Councils, the Non-Governmental agency responsible
for monitoring the database maintained by the Commission under clause (g) of
Regulation 8.1 and such other bodies in higher education, to coordinate and
monitor the anti-ragging measures in institutions across the country and to make
recommendations from time to time; and shall meet at least once in six months
each year.

g) The Commission shall institute an Anti-Ragging Cell within the Commission
as an institutional mechanism to provide secretarial support for collection of
information and monitoring, and to coordinate with the State Level Monitoring
Cell and University level Committees for effective implementation of anti-ragging
measures, and the Cell shall also coordinate with the Non-Governmental agency
responsible for monitoring the database maintained by the Commission appointed
under clause (g) of Regulation 8.1.
9. Administrative action in the event of ragging.-

9.1 The institution shall punish a student found guilty of ragging after following the
procedure and in the manner prescribed hereinunder:

a) The Anti-Ragging Committee of the institution shall take an appropriate decision,
in regard to punishment or otherwise, depending on the facts of each incident
of ragging and nature and gravity of the incident of ragging established in the
recommendations of the Anti-Ragging Squad.

b) The Anti-Ragging Committee may, depending on the nature and gravity of the
quilt established by the Anti-Ragging Squad, award, to those found guilty, one or
more of the following punishments, namely;

i. Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges.
ii. Withholding/ withdrawing scholarship/ fellowship and other benefits.
iii. Debarring from appearing in any test/ examination or other evaluation
process.
iv. Withholding results.
v. Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or
international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
vi. Suspension, expulsion from the hostel.
vii. Cancellation of admission.
viii. Rustication from the institution for period ranging from one to four
semesters.
ix. Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission
to any other institution for a specified period.
Provided that where the persons committing or abetting the act of ragging
are not identified, the institution shall resort to collective punishment.

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