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

3. Higher Educational Institution to take measure against discrimination:-
(1) Every higher educational institution shall take appropriate measures to –

a) safeguard the interests of the students without any prejudice to their caste, creed,
religion, language, ethnicity, gender and disability.

b) eliminate discrimination against or harassment of any student in all forms in
higher educational institutions by prohibiting it and by providing for preventive
and protective measures to facilitate its eradication and punishments for those
who indulge in any form of discrimination or harassment;
c) promote equality among students of all sections of the society.

(2) Without prejudice to the directives or instructions of the Central Government or the State
Governments issued from time to time in respect of treatment of students belonging
to Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes, no higher educational institution shall
discriminate a student belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes
categories, or allow or condone any constituent of the higher educational institution to
discriminate such a student or group of such students, and take the following measures
namely .
(a) the higher educational institution or constituent of higher educational institution
shall not discriminate against students belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes in admissions.
(i) by breach of the policy of reservation in admissions as may be applicable;
(ii) in accepting application for admission of such students;
(iii) in the way in which an application is processed;
(iv) in the arrangements made for, or the criteria used in, deciding who should
be offered admission as a student;
(v) by withholding or refusing to return any document in the form of certificates
of degree, diploma, etc., deposited with higher educational institutions
by such a student for the purpose of seeking admission, with a view to
inducing or compelling such a student to pay any fee or fees in respect of
any course or programme of study which he/she does not intend to pursue;
(vi) by demanding money in excess of that specified in the declared admission
policy;
(vii) by denying or limiting access to any benefit arising from such enrolment
provided by the higher educational institutions;
(viii) by treating unfavorably in any way in connection with the student’s
enrolment to a specific standard of class or area of study, training or
instruction.
(b) the higher educational institutions or constituent of higher educational institutions
shall prohibit all persons and authorities of the higher educational institutions
from harassing or victimizing any student.
(i) by announcing, verbally or otherwise, in the class, the names of the castes,
tribes, religion or region of the students;
(ii) by labeling students as reserved category in the class;
(iii) by passing derogatory remarks indicating caste, social, regional, racial or
religious background as reason of under-performance in the class;
(iv) by allotting differential time to any student to meet faculty as compared to
other students;

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