Prevention and prohibition of Ragging in technical Institutions, Universities including
Deemed to be Universities imparting technical education.
F.No.37-3/Legal/AICTE/2009 – In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 23
read with Section 10 (b), (g), (p) and (q) of AICTE Act, 1987, the All India Council
for Technical Education, hereby makes the following Regulations:-
Objectives
In view of the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in SLP No. 24295 of 2006
dated 16-05-2007 and in Civil Appeal number 887 of 2009, dated 08-05-2009 to prohibit,
prevent and eliminate the scourge of ragging including 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, or
indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities by any student or students which
causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise
fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other student or 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,
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, in all higher
education institutions in the country, and thereby, to provide for the healthy development,
physically and psychologically, of all students, the All India Council for Technical
Education,(AICTE) brings forth these Regulations.