What is Anti-Ragging?
Anti – Ragging means opposing and preventing ragging, which is any disorderly conduct, abuse (physical, mental, verbal, sexual), or humiliation of new/junior students (freshers) by seniors, often involving hazing, bullying, or demanding acts that cause shame, fear, or harm, making it a criminal offense with strict punishments like suspension or expulsion. Anti-ragging initiatives involve strict policies, committees, hotlines, and mandatory undertakings from students and parents to ensure a safe, respectful educational environment.
Any disorderly conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or a junior student.
Indulging in a rowdy or undisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student.
Asking the students to do any act or perform something which such student will not do in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student.
Who will Implement this Policy?
The heads of the educational institutions.
The State Government, through Divisional Commissioners. The opinion makers.
Ragging is a disturbing reality in the higher education system of our country. Despite the fact that over the years ragging has claimed hundreds of innocent lives and has ruined careers of thousands of bright students, the practice is still perceived by many as a way of “familiarization” and an “initiation into the real world” for young college-going students. Other organizations/bodies working in this field have also attempted to define ragging, the variety of definitions being reflective of differences in perspective.