Anti-Ragging Policy
- "Ragging" means the doing of any act which causes, or is likely to cause any physical, psychological or physiological harm of apprehension or shame or embarrassment to a student and includes:
- 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.
- Indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities by any student or students which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in any student.
- 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 student.
- Any act by a student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student.
- 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 or sadistic thrill from actively or passively participating in the discomfiture of any student.
- Any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any student.
General Conduct Rules and Guidelines
- While the students as adult citizens of the country enjoy their rights, they also are expected to be aware of their responsibilities.
- The institute will not support any act that is illegal as construed by the law of the land.
- As adults, the students are expected to have a fair sense of which act is legal and what is illegal.
- They should conduct themselves both inside and outside the institute in a manner that is befitting an institute of this stature.
- In addition to being mature and responsible in conduct, the students are expected to respect the rights of the other students of IBS community.
- The Institute encourages an all round development of students’ personality and their progressive and creative thinking.
- At the same time, in order that they effectively discharge civic responsibilities and virtues, the institute sets it’s own terms of conduct that must be adhered to by the students.
Disciplinary/Administrative Action
A student indulging in ragging can be subjected to :
- Debarred from Classes
- Debarred from Examinations
- Cancellation of Admission
- Initiation of criminal action