Ragging has ruined countless innocent lives and careers. In order to eliminate this menace from the campus through collective effort, St Thomas College of engineering and technology formed anti-ragging committee to monitor the matter related to ragging complaints. College practices zero tolerance on ragging of students.
The college has sets up squad of faculty members. The duty of the squad is to keeps vigil on and off campus and also near-by area of the campus before, during and after the college working hours. There is separate squad for to monitor activities in men’s hostel and ladies hostel. Faculties are encouraged to travel in college buses and they monitor the students during the travel as well. The squad counsel students not to indulge into any kind of ragging activity, which would invite disciplinary action against them.
In case of any complaint is received, the anti-ragging committee inquires the matter. If the act of ragging is proved without any doubt then the action is recommended to the authority and disciplinary action is taken against the culprit. If the matter is serious then the same would be reported the police for further action. However, no major complaints reported in the campus and the college is a ragging free campus.
Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:
- Any conduct by any student 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 undisciplined activities by any students 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 as the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, or torment or embarrassment.
- 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, emails, posts, public insults, which would also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious of 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 of showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other student.
The STCET Anti Ragging Committee consists of a faculty in charge (appointed by the Principal) and representatives from different departments of the college. It shall monitor the Anti Ragging activities in the institution, consider the recommendations of the Anti-Ragging Squad and take appropriate decisions, including spelling out suitable punishments to those found guilty. The members of the committee are appointed for a period of one year.