ACTION AGAINST RAGGING

At Indira, we follow a strict policy against Ragging and any activity resembling to it. Ragging is totally banned and anyone found guilty of ragging and /or abetting ragging is liable to be punished.

Ragging is also Prohibited as per the decision of the Honorable Supreme Court of India and directions have been given vide SLP No. 24295 of 2006 dtd 16-05-2007 and in Civil Appeal number 887 of 2009, dtd 08-05-2009. Maharashtra Prohibition of Ragging Act 1999 which is in effect from 15th May 1999 has following provisions for Action against Ragging. Ragging is prohibited as per the decision of the Supreme Court of India in Writ Petition No. (C) 656/1998. AICTE has framed regulation which has been notified vide F.No.37-3/Legal/AICTE/2009 dated July 1, 2009 (available on AICTE web portal atWWW.AICTE-india.org) Grievance>Anti-Ragging) on curbing the menace of ragging.

Ragging within and outside of any educational Institution is prohibited. Whosoever directly or indirectly commits, participates in, abets, or propagates ragging within or outside Educational Institution shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term up to 2 years and/ or penalty, which may extend to ten thousand rupees.

Any student convicted of an offence of ragging shall be dismissed from an educational institute and such student shall not be admitted in any other educational institute for a period of five years from the date of order of such dismissal.

At Indira, we have a comprehensive mechanism to curb the menace of ragging and policy of Zero Tolerance is followed by the management against Ragging. A committee is constituted at institute level which ensures compliance with the provisions of the law and takes necessary action on students’ grievances if any. All students & their parents must submit anti ragging undertaking at time of admission on stamp paper.