Ragging is a criminal offence as per University Grant Commission and Honourable Supreme Court of India. ChotabhaiJaverbhai College, Tirora has strict compliance on the prevention of ragging. The college is bound by the UGC regulations on ‘Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions 2009’. The college has established an Anti – Ragging Cell which governs the prevention of any meance of Ragging either within or outside the college. It is compulsory to all students to follow rules coined by anti-ragging cell. Till date college does not have any ragging incidence.

What Constitutes Ragging?
As per the University Grant Commission ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:

a) Any conduct by any student or students 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 student.
b) Indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities by any student or students 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 student.
c) Asking any student to do any act which such student 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 student.
d) Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher.
e) Exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.
f) Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students
g) 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;
h) 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 student.
i) Any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher.

Important Anti Ragging Documents

The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India orders – Curbing Ragging in Educational Institutions – Inclusion of No of Ragging Incidents in Prospectus/Brochures
(www.ugc.ac.in/oldpdf/ragging/soc_crei.pdf)

Curbing the menace of ragging in higher educational institutions
(www.ugc.ac.in/oldpdf/ragging/ragging.pdf)

UGC regulations on curbing the menace of ragging in HEI, 2009
(www.ugc.ac.in/oldpdf/ragging/gazzetaug2010.pdf)

Anti-Ragging Cell Committee

Co-ordinator : Dr. R. Taikar
Member : Mr. A. G. Gandhe, Mrs. S. N. Sheikh, Mr. R. B. Zode