Anti Ragging Cell
Anti-ragging Committee, CMS College Kottayam is constituted under the UGC regulations of Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009. The aim of the body is to eliminate ragging in all its forms from the college by prohibiting it under the regulations, preventing its occurrence and punishing those who indulge in ragging according the regulations and the appropriate law in force. Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts.
- 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 fresher or any other 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 fresher or any other student;
- 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 or 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 or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other student.
The present committee has been constituted with the following members:
- Adv. Sibin Mathew Medayil (Convenor) (Sociology)
- Dr. Charles A. Joseph (Physical Education)
- Mr. Ashok Alex Luke (Political Science)
- Dr. Sumi Mary Thomas (History)
- Mrs. Elizabeth Abraham (Ministerial Staff)
- Ms. Aparna Shaji III DC (Mathematics)
- Mrs. Swapna (Parent representative)
- Sri. C. John (DYSP) (Police personnel)
- Adv. Shyni Gopi (NGO)
- Mrs. Shahitha Rejith (Joint Secretary) (Parent representative)
- Mr. Shalu Mathew (Media representative)
- Sri. Radhakrishnan Koyickal (Civil administration)