College has taken various precautions as per Norms to prevent ragging and ensure 100% no-ragging.

These regulations were passed by the University Grants Commission in the year 2009 to curb the menace of ragging in the Universities in India. The best part of these regulations is that they shall apply to all the institutions including:

Students indulging in ragging will be punished as per the “TAMILNADU PROHIBITION OF RAGGING ACT, 1999” published in Tamilnadu Govt. Gazette on 26^th July 1999 and UGC’s “CURBING THE MENANCE OF RAGGING IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS’’

(i) Under the Central/provincial/state act

(ii) Deemed university under the UGC Act, 1956

(iii) All other educational institutions

The guidelines extend to all the premises, whether located in the campus or outside and also in means of transportation whether public or private. The objective of these guidelines is to ensure completely wiping and prohibiting the activities of ragging

Affidavit of Student: A student during the admission process has to file an affidavit along with his parents/guardian’s signature, stating that he will not be ragging other students directly or indirectly.

Anti-Ragging Committee: Every institution shall constitute a committee to be known as the Anti-Ragging Committee. To be nominated and headed by the Head of the institution, and consisting of representatives of civil and police administration, representatives of faculty members, representatives of parents, representatives of students belonging to the fresher’s category as well as senior students, non-teaching staff; and shall have a diverse mix of membership in terms of levels as well as gender. It shall be the duty of the Anti-Ragging Committee to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Regulations as well as the provisions of any law for the time being in force concerning ragging..

Contact detail of Anti Ragging Helpline/Anti Ragging Committee/Anti Ragging Squad: Every fresh student admitted to the institution shall be given a printed leaflet detailing to whom he/she has to turn to for help and guidance for various purposes including addresses and telephone numbers, so as to enable the student to contact the concerned person at any time. Identity of informants of ragging incidents is fully protected.

Anti ragging squad :Anti ragging committee would also monitor and oversee the performance of the Anti-Ragging Squad. It shall be the duty of the Anti-Ragging Squad to make surprise raids on hostels, and other places vulnerable to incidents of, and having the potential of, ragging.

FIR : The guidelines lays down that on receipt of any information concerning any reported incident of ragging, the Head of institution shall immediately determine, if a case under the penal laws is made out and if so, either on his own or through a member of the Anti-Ragging Committee, proceed to file a First Information Report (FIR), within twenty four hours of receipt of such information.

Evaluation of Ragging: It lays down that The Anti-Ragging Committee of the institution shall take an appropriate decision, in regard to punishment or otherwise, depending on the facts of each incident of ragging and nature and gravity of the incident of ragging established in the recommendations of the Anti-Ragging Squad.

Regulations by other Bodies

Apart from IPC and the UGC Regulations, there are other government bodies that have their own laws on ragging in their respective acts.

Punishable Ingredients of Ragging

(i) Abetment to ragging

(ii) Criminal conspiracy to rag

(iii) Unlawful assembly and rioting while ragging

(iv) Violation of decency and morals through ragging

(v) Injury to body causing hurt or grievous hurt

(vi) Wrongful restraint

(vii) Wrongful confinement

(viii) Use of criminal force

(ix) Extortion

(x) Assault/sexual offences/Unnatural offences

(xi) Criminal intimidation

(xii) Offences against property

(xiii) Attempt to commit any or above of the offences

(xiv) Any offence flowing from the definition of ragging

Consequences of Ragging

(i) Cancellation of admission

(ii) Suspension from attending classes

(iii) Withholding/withdrawing scholarship and other benefits

(iv) Debarring from appearing in exam/other evaluation process

(v) Withholding results

(vi) Debarring the student from representing in any national, international or youth festival.

(vii) Suspension from hostel

(viii) Restriction from institution for a period of 1 to 4 years

(ix) Expulsion from an institution and barring from admission in any other institution.

(x) Fine up to Rs. 25,000/-

(xi) Rigorous imprisonment up to three years

ANTI-RAGGING COMMITTEE

The Anti-Ragging committee is constituted as follows:

S.No	Name of Staff	Profession	Post
1	Dr. S. P. Manickavasugi	Chairman	Principal
2	Dr. K. Prabakaran	Co-ordinator	Member
3	Mr. R. Karthickkumar	Representative of Civil Administration	Member
4	Mr. C.Vijayakumar	Sub-Inspector of Police,Sholapuram	Member
5	Mr.M.Ganesan	Representative of NGO,Nehru yuva kendra	Member
6	Mr.N.Sirajudeen	Representative of Local Media	Member
7	Mr.S.Somasundaram	Faculty Representative	Member
8	Dr. J. Loyola Peeris	Faculty Representative	Member
9	Dr. K. Sathishkumar	Rector(Boys Hostel)	Member
10	Mrs. A. Damayanti	Rector (Girls Hostel)	Member
11	Mrs.V.Meenakshi	Parent Representative	Member
12	Mrs.N.Saitha barveen	Parent Representative	Member
13	Miss. S. Jayasri	Representative of Non-Teaching (Female)	Member
14	Mr.G.Dhinesh kumar	Representative of Non-Teaching(Male)	Member
15	Miss.S.Preethi	Student Representative	Member
16	Mr.A.Ahamed arief	Student Representative	Member
17	Mr. R.Rahul	Student Representative	Member

The objectives of the committee is as follows

(i)To eliminate ragging in all its forms.

(ii) To provide all the Anti-ragging information to the students.

(iii) The broucher of admission/Instruction booklet or the prospectus, whether in print or

Electronic format shall prominently print these Regulations in full.

(iv) Organize Anti-ragging Awareness Program for students.

(v) Printing of separate Anti-ragging brochure for Students.

(vi) Take the affidavit from students and Parents at the time of Admission.

(vii) Interact with students for their problems.

(viii) Wide publicity through prospectus, college broacher, Anti-ragging broacher, flexes boards,

Meetings etc.

(ix) To arrange visit in college campus.

(x) To take serious and immediate action in case of ragging.

ANTI-RAGGING MONITERING CELL

The Anti-Ragging Monitoring cell committee is constituted as follows:

Sr.No	Name of Staff	Post	Department
1	Dr.S.P.Manickavasugi	Chairman	Principal
2	Prof.S.Elanchezhiyan	Member	Vice-Principal
3	Prof.K.Raja	Member	Vice-Principal
4	Dr.K.Prabakaran	Co-ordinator	Chemistry
5	Dr.J.Loyola peeris	Member	Tamil
6	Mr.P.Muthu	Member	Physical director
7	Mr. K. Arun Kumar	Member	MBA
8	Mrs. K. Arulmozhi	Member	MCA

ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 – 2017
ACTIVITIES
S.NO	DATE	EVENT	NO OF PARTICIPANTS
1	30/08/2016	Personality Development Program	120

ACADEMIC YEAR 2017 – 2018
ACTIVITIES
S.NO	DATE	EVENT	NO OF PARTICIPANTS
1	16/08/2017	Womens Harassment Act	115

ACADEMIC YEAR 2018 – 2019
ACTIVITIES
S.NO	DATE	EVENT	NO OF PARTICIPANTS
1	24/09/2018	Ragging Measures	105

ACADEMIC YEAR 2019 – 2020
ACTIVITIES
S.NO	DATE	EVENT	NO OF PARTICIPANTS
1	22/07/2019	Anti-Ragging Awareness Program	110

ACADEMIC YEAR 2021 – 2022
ACTIVITIES
S.NO	DATE	EVENT	NO OF PARTICIPANTS
1	8/12/2021	Ragging is a Crime	120

NATIONAL ANTIRAGGING HELPLINE

For any query, please feel free to contact,

1800-180-55-22 (Tollfree)

LINK FOR ANTI RAGGING UNDERTAKING IN FOLLOWING FORMAT:

ANTI RAGGING Undertaking BY STUDENTS AND PARENTS/GUARDIANS

<< Online fill up the Anti-Ragging undertaking >>

(Please read carefully the Summary of the UGC Regulations and the Supreme Court Judgment on anti-ragging.
Once you have read these documents, you must go to the website:http://antiragging.in / OR http://www.amanmovement.org click on the tab that says “Online Undertaking (Affidavit)”. Please fill up the affidavit with correct and latest information.

:http://antiragging.in

http://www.amanmovement.org

If you have any questions, please contact us at

Principal: 8072945973

E-mail:principal@annaicollege.com

Mobile No. of the convener for any compliance: 9488488203, 9842613188, 9786112274.