JBIT Doon

Sub: Anti-ragging initiatives.

Ref: Directives of the Supreme Court of India , dated 16, 2007 in SLP No. (s) 24295 of 2006 University of Kerela Vs Council , Principal's Colleges, Kerela 7 Ors (SLP(C) No. 24296-99/2004 & W.P.(Crl) No. 173/2006 and SLP (C) No. 14356/2005).

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 The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India admitted and heard the above referred SLPs in relation to the menace of ragging in Technical Intitutions / Universities / Colleges in the Country.

 In this connection , a committee headed by Dr. R.K. Raghavan, former Director of CBI, was constituted by the apex court for giving specific recommendations on effective prevention of ragging in educational institutions.

 Accordingly, the Committee had carried out a very detailed study on the various factors contributing to ragging and collected the public opinion. Further, the Committee had submitted a detailed report suitable recommendations and measures required to effectively curb the menace. The recommendations of the Committee were duly accepted and the following directives have since been issued to all the educational institutes for necessary implementation by the Hon'ble Court.

* Primary responsibility for curbing ragging rests with academic institutions themselves.

* Ragging adversely impacts the standard of higher education .

* Incentives should be available to institutions for curbing the menace and there should be disincentives for failure to do so.

* Enrolment in academic pursuits, or campus life should not immunize any adult citizen from penal provisions of the laws of the land.

* Ragging needs to be perceived as failure to inculcate human values from the stage of schooling.

* Behavioural patterns among students , particularly potential 'raggers' , need to be identified.

* Measures against ragging must deter its recurrence.

* Concerted action is required at the level of the school . higher educational institution, district administration, university, State and Central Governments, to make any curb effective.

* Media and the Civil Society should be involved in this exercise.

1. The punishment to be meted out has to be exemplary and justifiably harsh to act as a deterrent against recurrence of such incidents.

2. Every single incident of ragging where the victim or his parent or guardian or the Head of the Institution is not satisfied with the Institutional arrangement for action , a First Information Report must be filed without exception by the institutional authorities with the local police authorities, Any failure on the part of the institutional authority or negligence or deliberate delay in lodging the FIR with the local Police shall be construed to be an act of culpable negligence on the part of the institutional authority. If any victim of ragging or his parent or guardian intends to file FIR directly with the police , that will not absolve the institutional authority from the requirement of filing the FIR .

3. In the prospectus to be issued for admission by educational institutions . it shall be clearly stipulated that in case the applicant for admission is found to have indulged in ragging in the past or it is noticed later that he has indulged in ragging , admission may be refused , or he shall be expelled from the Educational Institution.

4. It shall be the collective responsibility of the authorities and functionaries of the concerned institution and their role shall also be open to scrutiny for the purpose of finding out whether they have taken effetive steps for preventing ragging and in case of their failure, action can be taken; for example , denial of any grant-in-aid , or assistance from the State Governments.

5. Anti-ragging committees and squads shall be formed forthwith by the institutions and it shall be the job of the committee, or the squad, as the case may be, to see that the Committee's recommendations , more particularly those noted above, are observed without exception and if it is noticed that there is any deviation , the same shall be brought forthwith to the notice of this Court.

6. The Committee constituted pursuant to the order of this Court shall continue to monitor the functioning of the anti-ragging committees and the squads to be formed. They shall also monitor the implementation of the recommendations to which reference has been made above.

1. Formation of the Committees & Squads: Complying with the directives of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, the Institute has formed the following Anti-ragging committees and squads for overseeing the implementation of the provisions of the verdict with immediate effect.

2. Institute Level Anti-ragging Committee & Squad:

The Institute level Anti-Ragging Committee and Squads shall work to see the implementation of the recommendations.

3. Undertaking from Students and Parents:
Each of the Student of the Institute and his/her parents and, or Gaurdian are hereby required to submit a combined undertaking at the time of registration in the prescribed format as attached to this order , which is mendatory for this registration.
All concerned officials of the Institute , Students, Parents and Gaurdians of the students, members of the Anti-Ragging Committee and Anti-Ragging Squads are hereby requested to adhere to the stipulations & effectively monitor and comply with the provisions made in the directives.

I do hereby declare that I am fully aware of the above noted approach of JB Institute of Technology, Dehradun towards ragging and the statutory punishment to which a student shall be liable if found guilty of ragging and hereby undertake that I shall neither indulge in ragging activities nor shall take part in or subject anyone to ragging.

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I do hereby declare that I am fully aware of the above noted approach of JB Institute of Technology, Dehradun towards ragging and the statutory punishment to which a student shall be liable if found guilty of ragging and hereby undertake that my ward shall neither indulge in ragging activities nor shall take part in or subject anyone to ragging.


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