Anti Ragging Cell

CURBING THE MENACE OF RAGGING

Ragging is totally prohibited in the University and anyone found guilty of ragging and/or abetting ragging, whether actively or passively, or being a part of a conspiracy to promote ragging, is liable to be punished in accordance with the UGC Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009 as well as under the penal law for the time being in force.

Anti Ragging Helpline Toll Free Number, Anti Ragging Committee, Squad, Monitoring Cells, Nodal Officers and Counselors:

The following teachers are appointed to Anti Ragging Committee in addition to their own duties in the centre for Distance and Online Education, KUK

1. Dr. Jitender Acharya, Assistant Professor
2. Dr. Manju Sharma, Assistant Professor
3. Dr. Jyoti, Assistant Professor

INSTRUCTIONS AGAINST RAGGING :
With fifty nine years of its existence, Kurukshetra University has earned recognition as one of the renowned centres of teaching and research in the country. We appreciate the parents and the students for their interest and option towards pursuing their higher studies at Kurukshetra University. We wish them success in their plans towards getting admission in the programme of their choice on the campus. Those who succeed in joining a course, should be making best use of the excellent facilities and congenial atmosphere available in the University towards all-round development of their personality. We would expect our students to make best use of this opportunity and grow as able and responsible citizens. Students will be required to work hard with their energies focused towards achieving their goal.

We take pride in informing all those desirous of seeking admission, that over all these years, our University has the best traditions of maintaining a healthy and congenial academic environment. We are also glad to convey that with the determined and sincere efforts of our senior students and faculty, our campus has been free from the menace of Ragging.

Chairpersons/Directors of all the University Teaching Departments/Institutes to ensure that every student and their parents be asked to submit an online undertaing every academic year to the effect that the concerned student will not take part in any activity leading to Ragging of junior students.

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

• 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;
• Indulging in rowdy or indisciplined 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;
• 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;
• Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher;
• Exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students;
• Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students;
• 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;
• Any act or abuse by spoken words, e-mails, 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;
• 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 or any other student.
• All the senior students are advised to guide and treat junior students affectionately.
• Junior students may contact their Chairpersons or other University functionaries like Proctor, Dean Students Welfare, Chief Warden, Wardens or Chief Security Officer for help and guidance.