Statutory Cells

Anti-ragging Cell

The Anti-Ragging Cell, established according to the regulations of the UGC, ensures that students maintain discipline in the classrooms and within the college campus. Members of the cell regularly go on rounds to each and every classroom to make note of errant behavior and to make sure that the college campus is free from ragging and eve-teasing. The Cell takes severe punitive action against students indulging in such heinous activities. Students can make use of the suggestion boxes placed on different sections of the campus to make their complaints regarding ragging. They may also approach the members of the cell or any of their other teachers as is comfortable to them.

Ragging includes any conduct by any student/s 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 undisciplined activities by students causing annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or raising fear or apprehension in any fresher or student.

Objectives

• To ensure that students maintain discipline in the classrooms and within the college campus.
• To make note of errant behavior and to make sure that the college campus is free from ragging and eve-teasing.
• To take initiative and indulge into a dialogue with those students who are observed to be non-participative and/or show any kind of unusual behavior.

Roles and Responsibilities

• If in case any person approaches any of the committee member, the member is immediately required to inform others and call for the meeting.
• A written complaint is required to be taken from the aggrieved person, necessary action to be taken, preferably to settle the matter through counseling and conciliations soon as possible in case the matter is not sorted, inquiry to be conducted and matter to be sorted out within 10 days from the date of complaint.
• The members to be vigilant all the time and ensure that there is no such incident taking place in campus by creating awareness and having an open dialogue with all the students.
• The committee is expected to be vigilant and to ensure that the students open up and discuss their major issues with the members. It is their duty to take initiative and indulge into a dialogue with those students who are observed to be silent, non-participative and/or show any kind of unusual behavior.

Grievance Redressal Cell

The Grievance Redressal Cell attempts to address genuine problems and complaints of students whatever be the nature of the problem. Students are encouraged to use the suggestion boxes placed on different sections of the campus to express constructive suggestions and grievances. They may also approach the members of the cell or any of their other teachers as is comfortable to them.

Students are requested to note that making a complaint is serious and therefore they are to use this power in a responsible manner. At the same time, the college assures students that once a complaint is made, it will be treated with sensitivity and confidentiality.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Receiving students complaints
• To develop a system to solve grievances of students and other stakeholders
• To acknowledge students their duties and responsibilities to access the benefits.
• To investigate the reason of complaint and obtain a possible solution to the problem.
• To uphold the dignity of the college by providing and promoting cordial relationships with students, peer and teachers.

Anti-Sexual Harassment Cell

The College aims to create a conducive environment in which students, teachers and non-teaching staff can work together in a workplace that is free from any form of harassment, violence and exploitation based on gender. To this effort the college will not tolerate any form of sexual harassment from anybody. The Cell organizes frequent gender sensitization programs.

Sexual Harassment has been defined as, “An act of sexual harassment includes any one or more of the unwelcome acts or behavior, whether directly or by implication”

• Physical contact and advances
• A demand or request for sexual favours
• Making sexual-coloured remarks
• Showing pornography
• Any unwelcome physical, verbal or nonverbal conduct of sexual nature.

The functions of the cell are to purely safeguard the rights of female students, faculty and staff members and also to provide a platform for listening to complaints. It tries to equip them with the knowledge of their legal rights and redressal of their grievances. To facilitate speedy delivery of justice, meetings are organized regularly. The cell processes oral and written complaints.

Objectives

• To resolve issues pertaining to sexual harassment.
• To educate the girl students, faculty and staff members with knowledge of their legal rights.
• To provide a platform for listening to complaints.

Roles and Responsibilities

The committee has to ensure enough steps are taken to create awareness on the topic.

• If in case any person approaches any of the committee member, the member is immediately required to inform others and call for the meeting
• A written complaint should be taken from the aggrieved person, necessary action to be taken, preferably to settle the matter through counseling and conciliations as soon as possible in case the matter is not sorted, inquiry to be conducted and matter to be sorted out within 10 days from the date of complaint.
• The members to be vigilant all the time and ensure that there is no such incident taking place in campus by creating awareness and having an open dialogue with all the students.
• The committee is expected to be vigilant and to ensure that the students open up and discuss their major issues with the members. It is their duty to take initiative and indulge into a dialogue with those students who are observed to be silent, non-participative and/or show any kind of unusual behaviour.
• It is most important to ensure that the students interact and come out of their personal problems so that they succeed in their efforts, and this would prevent suicidal instincts in them.

Equal Opportunities Cell

The Equal Opportunity Cell of the college ensures that all students are treated as equal and attempts to address deep-seated inequalities in our system. The cell, along with the Ambedkar Study Centre, promotes awareness on the life and vision of Babasaheb Ambedkar. It also guides SC/ ST students to avail all permissible scholarships and financial assistance.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To ensure equity and equality to the community at large in education and bring about social inclusion.
• To develop the concept of unity in diversity.
• To create socially productive atmosphere for academic interaction and for the growth of healthy interpersonal relationships among the students coming from various strata of the society
• To make efforts to sensitize the academic community regarding the challenges of social exclusion as well as aspirations of the marginalized.
• To help individuals or a group of students belonging to the underprivileged section of the society.
• To reach the information related to schemes and programmes for the welfare of the socially weaker section as well as notifications/memoranda, office orders of the Government, or other related agencies/organizations issued from time to time.
• To maintain roster system/procedures for admission/ registration of students belonging to the disadvantaged groups of society.
• To establish coordination with the Government and other agencies/organizations to mobilize academic and financial resources to provide assistance

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