COMMITTEES

Anti Ragging

Ragging in any form inside or outside the college is banned and in order to have the peaceful atmosphere in and around the College, Canteen, Library and Hostels, an Anti-Ragging Committee with the faculty and staff members are constituted.

• AICTE Anti-Ragging Notification
• UGC Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educations
• Anti-Ragging Affidavit (Proforma)
• College Anti Ragging Committee
• AICTE - Anti-ragging Public Notice

College has taken various precautions as per AICTE / UGC Norms to prevent ragging and ensure 100% No-Ragging.

• Formed Anti Ragging Committee consisting of faculty and staff members.
• Committee has taken steps and allotted duties to all the staff members at almost all areas in the college and Hostels (i.e. Departmental Buildings, Canteen, Library, parking places, play grounds, Hostels etc.) to avoid ragging activities.
• Wide canvassing about anti-ragging, is being done in the forms of display of Flexi banners, Meetings, and Boards in college, Canteen, Hostel premises and surrounding areas where there is a chance of ragging.
• Awareness programmes were conducted in the form of meetings to the students.

PROHIBITION OF RAGGING:

o Ragging is prohibited as per Act 26 of A.P. Legislative Assembly, 1997 o Ragging entails heavy fines and / or imprisonment.
o Ragging invokes suspension and dismissal from the College.
o Outsiders are prohibited from entering the hostels without permission.
o Girl students must be in their hostel rooms by 9.00pm.
o All the students must carry their Identity Cards and show them when demanded.
o The Principal and the Wardens will visit the hostels and inspect the rooms any time.
o Suspended students are debarred from entering the Campus except when required to attend enquiry and to submit an explanation.

PROHIBITION OF RAGGING IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ACT 26 OF 1997 PROMULGATED BY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

SALIENT FEATURES:

• Ragging within or outside any Educational Institution is prohibited. • Ragging means doing an act which causes or is likely to cause insult or annoy or fear or apprehension or threat intimidation or outrage or injury to a student.

S.No	Nature of Ragging	Punishment
1	Teasing, Embarrassing and Humiliating.	Imprisonment upto 6 months or fine upto Rs.1,000/- or both.
2	Assaulting or using Criminal Force or Criminal Intimidation.	Imprisonment upto 1 Year or fine upto Rs.2,000/- or both.
3	Wrongfully Restraining or Confining or Causing Hurt.	Imprisonment upto 2 years or fine upto Rs.5,000/- or both.
4	Causing grievous hurt kidnapping or raping or committing unnatural offence.	Imprisonment upto 5 years and fine upto Rs.10,000/-
5	Causing death or abetting suicide.	Imprisonment upto 10 years and fine upto Rs.50,000/-

Note:

1. A student convicted of any of the above offences, will be dismissed from the college.
2. A student imprisoned for more than six months for any of the above offences will not be admitted in any other colleges.
3. A Student against whom there is prima-facie evidence of ragging in any form will be suspended from the college immediately.
4. The full text of Act 26 is placed in the College / Library

Anti Ragging Committee

A Committee consisting of the following members is hereby constituted as “Anti Ragging Committee"

S.NO.	Name of the Committee Member	Designation	Position-in
1	Dr. G. Apparao Naidu	Principal	Chairman
2	Dr. R. Sridhar	HOD - BSH	Convener
3	Mr.Balaswamy	Ghatkesar,SHO	Police Representative
4	Mr.Govind	Vaartha, Reporter	Media Representative
5	Dr. B. Phijik	HOD-CSE	Faculty Representative
6	Dr. T. Pullaiah	HOD-ECE	Faculty Representative
7	Dr. M. Vishnu Vardhan Rao	HOD-CSE(AI&ML)	Faculty Representative
8	Mrs. M Parimala	HOD-CSE(DS)	Faculty Representative
9	B. Koteswara Rao	P.D. BS&H	Faculty Representative
10	Mrs. Vinodha	Hostel Warden	Mgmt. Representative
11	Mr. K Chandrashekar F/O (25UPIA0493)	Parent	Parent Representative
12	L Swathi (25UPI1A0535)	Student	Student Representative
13	T Poojitha (22UP1A6759)	Student	Student Representative
14	P Ashmitha (22UP1A0439)	Student	Student Representative

Roles & Responsibilities :
1.Should meet often to discuss the steps to be taken to prevent ragging in the campus.
2.Mandatorily anti-ragging undertaking is taken from students and their parents at the time of admission.
3.Awareness programmes are conducted to the students in association with Telangana Legal Services authority, Local Police, Progressive Psychologists association and various NGO’s about ragging act , punishments and consequences.
4.Posters depicting the anti-ragging act and its punishments are displayed on all notice boards, corridors and at the canteen.
5.Contact No.s of the Anti-Ragging Committee members are displayed at various sensitive places across the campus.

Term : Two Years and shall continue to be in force until reconstruction.
Meetings : The meeting may be scheduled as and when necessary.