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

(i) the higher educational institution shall take steps to educate the educational
fraternity and public and raise public awareness on the importance of equality
and overcoming any form of caste based discrimination and harassment against
students belonging to the marginalized sections, including SC/ST students of the
society in higher educational institution;
(j) The higher educational institutions shall ensure the strict implementation of all
constitutional provisions and protective measures in respect of students belonging
to SC/ST categories;
(k) the higher educational institution shall upload on its website all measures
for elimination of discrimination and punishments for breaching them and
the higher educational institution shall also upload relevant public awareness
material for prevention of discrimination against and harassment of any section
of the student.;
4. PUNISHMENTS:- (1) Whoever commits any act of discrimination or harassment as specified

in these regulations against any student or section of students in any higher educational
institution, shall be dealt with through the following procedure, namely:-

(a) on receipt of a written complaint, the Anti Discrimination Officer shall initiate
follow-up action including preliminary fact finding inquiry, if he considers
necessary;

(b) on the recommendation of the Anti Discrimination Officer, the higher educational
institution shall take appropriate follow-up action:
(c) the competent authority of the higher educational institution upon receipt of the
inquiry report shall refer the same to the Anti Discrimination Officer in the case
of students for taking appropriate action in accordance with the provisions of the
Statutes or Ordinances or Regulations of the higher educational institution or the
UGC Regulations on Ragging and any other Regulations in force; or
(d) in case of teachers and non-teaching staff, the competent authority of the higher
educational institution upon receipt of the inquiry report shall take appropriate
action in accordance with the provision of the Statutes or Ordinances or
Regulations of the higher educational institution or service rules as applicable to
higher educational institution.
2. The punishment shall be commensurate with the nature of the discrimination or
harassment.
5. INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPLAINT:- (1) A complaint about discrimination or
harassment as defined in these regulations may be made in writing by a student or a parent
of a student irrespective of whether the discrimination or harassment is alleged to have taken
place within or outside the higher educational institution.
2. The complaint shall include sufficient details of the alleged act of discrimination or
harassment.

3. The complaint shall be made to the Anti Discrimination Officer.
4. The higher educational institution shall formulate and make public, by uploading the
information on its website, a transparent procedure for filing and dealing with such
complaint.

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