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

University Grants Commission
(Promotion of Equity in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2012.

No. 14-3/2012(CPP-II)--In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 26 of
the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), the University Grants Commission
(UGC) hereby makes the following Regulations namely:-

1. SHORT TITLE, APPLICATION AND COMMENCEMENT:-
(1) These regulations may be called the UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Educational
Institutions) Regulations, 2012.
(2) They shall apply to all the higher educational institutions in India,

(3) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. DEFINITIONS:- in these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) “constituent of higher educational institutions” means any authority or person or
group of persons or sections of the institutional community belonging to the higher
educational institutions;
(b) “discrimination” means any distinction, exclusion, limitation or preference which has
the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing equality of treatment in education and
in particular –
i) of depriving a student or a group of students on the basis of caste, creed religion,
language, ethnicity, gender, disability of access to education of any type or at any
level;
ii) of imposing conditions on any student or group of students which are in-
compatible with the dignity of human; and

iii) of subjecting to the provision of establishing or maintaining separate educational
systems or institutions for students or groups of students. based on caste, creed,
religion, language, ethnicity, gender and disabilities.

(c) “equity” means a level playing field for all students in respect of the entitlement and
opportunity for enjoyment of all legitimate rights.
(d) “harassment” means unwanted conduct which is persistent and demeans, humiliates
or creates a hostile and intimidating environment or is calculated to induce submission
by actual or threatened adverse consequences;
(e) “higher educational institution” means a university within the meaning of clause (f)
of section 2, a College within the meaning of clause (b) of sub- section (1) of section
12 A and an institution deemed to be a University. declared under section 3 of the
University Grants Commission Act, 1956;
(f) “ragging” means any of the acts as defined under the University Grants Commission
Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Education Institutions,
2009;
(g) “unfavourable treatment” means any adverse changes in the working environment,
denial of training, and denial of opportunities for advancement, unfavorable probationary
reports, vexatious grievances and exclusion by beers;
(h) “victimisation” means any unfavorable treatment of a student on the basis caste, creed,
religion, language, ethnicity, gender and disability.

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