Anti-Ragging Rules and Regulations

Our College is ...RAGGING FREE CAMPUS (No Ragging is ever entertained)


Action against ragging: Maharashtra Prohibition of Ragging Act 1999 which is in effect from 15th May 1999 has the following provisions for Action against Ragging.

Late. Kakasaheb Mhaske Memorial Medical Foundation’s Kakasaheb Mhaske College of Pharmacy, Ahmednagar is included under the ambit of Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education, Mumbai, India.

  • Ragging within or outside of any educational institution is prohibited,
  • Whosoever directly or indirectly commits, participates in, abets, or propagates ragging within or outside any 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 the educational institution and such student shall not be admitted in any other educational institution for a period of five years from the date of order of such dismissal.
  • Whenever any student or, as the case may be, the parent or guardian or a teacher of an educational institution complaints, in writing, of ragging to the head of the educational institution, the head of the educational institution shall, without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, within seven days of the receipt of the complaint, enquire into the matter mentioned in the complaint and if, prima facie, it is found true, suspend the student who is accused of the offence, and shall, immediately forward the complaint to the police station having jurisdiction over the area in which the educational institution is situated, for further action. Where, on enquiry by the head of the educational institution, it is found that there is no substance, prima facie, in the complaint received, he /she shall intimate the fact, in writing, to the complainant. The decision of the head of the educational institution shall be final.If the head of the educational institution fails or neglects to act in the manner specified in section “d” above when a complaint of ragging is made, such person shall be deemed to have abetted the offence and shall, on conviction, be punished as provided for in section “b” above.

What Constitutes Ragging, Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:

  1. 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;
  2. 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;
  3. 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;
  4. Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher;
  5. Exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.
  6. Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students;
  7. 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;
  8. Any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, posts, 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;
  9. Any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any other studen with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other student.

Actions to be taken against students for indulging and abetting ragging in technical institutions

  1. The punishment to be meted out to the persons indulged in ragging has to be exemplary and justifiably harsh to act as a deterrent against recurrence of such incidents.
  2. Every single incident of ragging a First Information Report (FIR) must be filed without exception by the institutional authorities with the local police authorities
  3. The Anti-Ragging Committee of the institution shall take an appropriate decision, with regard to punishment or otherwise, depending on the facts of each incident of ragging and nature and gravity of the incident of ragging.
  4. Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offence as established the possible punishments for those found guilty of ragging at the institution level shall be any one or any combination of the following,
    a) Cancellation of admission
    b) Suspension from attending classes
    c) Withholding/withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefits
    d) Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or other evaluation process
    e) Withholding results
    f) Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
    g) Suspension/expulsion from the hostel
    h) Rustication from the institution for period ranging from 1 to 4 semesters
    i) Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution.
    j) Collective punishment: when the persons committing or abetting the crime of ragging are not identified, the institution shall resort to collective punishment as a
    deterrent to ensure community pressure on the potential raggers.

ANTI-RAGGING COMMITTEE

SR.NO

NAME

DESIGNATION

CONTACT NUMBER

1

Mr. Thube N.S.

Principal

9096273243

2

Mr.Mhaske A. S.

Trustee

8390102277

3

Mr.Bhapkar A.R.

HOD

9860623522

4

Mrs.Nimbore K.N.

Sr.Lecturer

9970466747

5

Mr.Sameer Dani

Media representative

9881201901

6

Mr.Parkhe N.V.

Parent representative

9822522726

 

GENDER HARASSMENT COMMITTEE

SR.NO

NAME

DESIGNATION

CONTACT NUMBER

1

Mr.Thube N.S.

Principal

9096273243

3

Mr.Bhapkar A.R.

HOD

9860623522

4

Mrs.Nimbore K.N.

Sr.Lecturer

9970466747

 

Ms.Jagtap Dipali

Student

4

Ms.Ware Ankita/p>

Student

 

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