Ragging is totally prohibited in the hostels, and anyone found guilty of ragging and/or abetting ragging, whether actively or passively, or being a part of a conspiracy to promote ragging, is liable to be punished in accordance with “UGC Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009” as well as under the provisions of any penal law for the time being in force.

Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:

  1. any conduct by any boarder or boarders whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or any other boarder;
  2. indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities by any boarder or boarders which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other boarder;
  3. asking any boarder to do any act which such boarder will not in the ordinary course do and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, or torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of such fresher or any other boarder;
  4. any act by a senior boarder that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other boarder or a fresher;
  5. exploiting the services of a fresher or any other boarder for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of boarders.
  6. any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other boarder by boarders;
  7. any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person;
  8. any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, post, public insults which would also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other boarder ;
  9. any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any other boarder with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a boarder over any fresher or any other boarder.

The boarders must contact their respective Warden or Provost in case any threat of ragging with them or other boarders. The contact numbers have been given in the brochure and website.

A student seeking admission in the university hostel must carefully read and understand the provisions contained in "UGC Regulation for curbing menace of ragging 2009" and shall have to submit additional affidavits countersigned by his parents/guardians in the form prescribed in Annexure I and Annexure II to the Regulations along with his application. 

UGC Regulation for curbing menace of ragging 2009