Campus Committee

Directives of the Supreme Court of India, dated May 16, 2007 in SLP No. (s) 24295 of 2006. University of Kerala Vs Council, Principals’, Colleges, Kerala &Ors with SLP(C) No. 24296-99/2004 & W.P. (Crl) No. 173/2006 and SLP (C) No. 14356/2005) and Civil Appeal no. 887 of 887 of 2009 dated May 8, 2009.

The Honourable Supreme Court of India admitted and heard the above referred SLPs in relation to the menace of ragging in Technical Institutions/Universities/Colleges in the Country. In this connection, a committee headed by Dr. R.K. Raghavan, former Director of CBI, for giving specific recommendations on effective prevention of ragging in educational institutions was constituted by the apex court. Accordingly, the Committee had carried out a very detailed study on the various factors contributing for ragging and collected the public opinion. Further, the Committee had submitted a detailed report with suitable recommendations and measures required to effectively curb the menace. The recommendations of the Committee were duly accepted. The following directives have been issued to all the educational institutes for necessary implementation by the Honourable Court and this institute proposes to follow them.

I. Factors enlisted by committee:

• Primary responsibility for curbing ragging rests with academic institutions themselves.
• Ragging adversely impacts the standards of higher education.
• Incentives should be available to institution for curbing the menace and there should be disincentives for failure to do so.
• Enrolment in academic pursuits or a 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 schooling stage.
• 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.

• The punishment to be meted out has to be exemplary and justifiable harsh to act as a deterrent against recurrence of such incidents.
• Every single incident of ragging where the victim or his parent/guardian or the Head of Institution is not satisfied with the institutional arrangement for action, a First Information Report must be filled 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 or his parent/guardian of ragging intends to file FIR directly with the police, that will not absolve the institutional authority from the requirement of filing the FIR.
• 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 if it is noticed later that he has indulged in ragging, admission may be refused or he shall be expelled from the educational institution.
• 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 effective 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.
• Anti-ragging committees and Squads shall be forthwith formed 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 forthwith brought to the notice of this Court.
• 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.

(Dr. Om Prakash Sharma)
Director, PCE

Copy to:
Chairman, PF
Director, (Admin &Fin.) PF
Director, PF 4. Assistant Director (PF), 5 Dean (1st Year, PCE) 6. Chief Proctor (PCE), 7. Proctor (1st Year, PCE), 8. HoD First Year (PCE), 9. All HoDs, 10. Mess Manager (PF), 11. All members of Anti-ragging committees & Squads, 12. All Students / Faculty Members/ Staff Members through Notice Board.

Regarding constitution of “Poornima Women Welfare Association (PWWA)” committee for women grievance in PCE, Jaipur, details of the committee composition as mentioned below:

As per the AICTE Notification issued vide F. No. 35-3/Legal/2012 Dated 25.05.2012 [ANNEXURE: III], the term “Student Grievance” refers to the grievance at individual level, which has occurred because of some oversight on the part of institution/university, its administration/ employees, students etc., which lead to some discontent or dissatisfaction on the part of student(s). In order to ensure transparency by Technical Institutions imparting technical education, in admission and with Paramount Objectives of preventing unfair practices, all colleges/ institutions are required to provide a mechanism to innocent students for redressal of their grievances.
As per instruction received from RTU/ various competent authorities it was decided to constitute Student Grievance Redressal Committee. The constitution of the Student Grievance Redressal Committee will be as follows:-

Objectives of the Cell: SC/ST/OBC Cell has been constituted in the Institute to resolve all the affairs and problems related to the SC/ST/OBC Officers, Employees, and Students of the Institute. Following are the important work under SC/ST/OBC Cell:
1.  All affairs related to SC/ST/OBC.
2.  All affairs related to SC/ST/OBC reservation implemented in the Institute according to Indian Government Policy.
3.  Registering the complaints in writing from of SC/ST/OBC teachers, officers, employees, and students and address it to concerned department, person, section for its peaceful resolution.
4.  Nomination of SC/ST/OBC students for Cell at Institute level.

Members of the Cell: