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2. Any individual or collective act or practice or ragging constitute gross indiscipline shall be
dealt with under these rules.
3. Ragging for these rules, ordinarily means any act, conduct or practice by which dominant
power or status of senior students is brought to bear on students freshly enrolled or students who
are, in any way, considered junior or inferior by other students and includes individual or
collective acts or practice which:
• Involve physical assault or threat or use of physical force
• Violate the status, dignity, and honour of women students
• Violate the status, dignity, and honour of students belonging to the Scheduled Castes,
Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes
• Expose students to ridicule and contempt and affect their self-esteem
• Entail verbal abuse and aggression, indecent gestures and obscene behaviour
• The Director, Dean, Hostel Superintendent, and Faculty of AIIMS Bhopal shall take
immediate action on any information of the occurrence of ragging
4. Notwithstanding anything in Clause (4) above, the Dean or any other Faculty member/or
authority may also Suo-moto enquire into any incident of ragging and make a report to the
Executive Director of the identity of those who have engaged and the nature of the incident.
5. The Dean may also submit an initial report establishing the identity of the perpetrators of
ragging and the nature of the ragging incident.
6. On the receipt of a report under clause (5) or (6) or a determination by the relevant authority
disclosing the occurrence or ragging incidents described under the first three points in Clause 3,
the Executive Director shall direct or order rustication of a student or students for a specific
number of semesters.
7. The Director may in other cases of ragging order or direct that any student or students be
expelled or be not, for a stated period, admitted to a course of study as AIIMS, departmental
examination for one or more semesters or that the result of the student or students concerned in
the examination(s) in which they appeared to be cancelled.
8. In a case where students who have obtained degree(s) of AIIMS are found guilty under this
Rules, appropriate action will be taken for withdrawal of degrees conferred by the AIIMS.
9. For this Rules, abetment to ragging will also amount to ragging.
(iii)
Internal Complaint Committee: A statutory committee, comprising of members from the
teaching and non-teaching staff as well as students looks into matters related to sexual harassment
of students and staff in the college. Any person aggrieved in this matter may fearlessly approach
the committee for a fair and concerned hearing and redressal.
(iv)
Unauthorized absence of students: Unauthorized absence of students will be informed to the
students and also Parents or Local Guardians. At least 3 reminders will be issued with a gap of
10 days by the Academic Section to these students. Thereafter the action for cancellation of the
registration of the concerned will be decided by the Dean (Academics) / Director, AIIMS
Bhopal.
(v)
Transferring of Research Fellowship from other institutes to AIIMS Bhopal for PhD candidates
under Category B is permissible once during the entire PhD tenure.
For any interpretational variation/discrepancy in the above-mentioned Ph.D. rules/norms the
decision of the Director, AIIMS Bhopal will be binding to all concerned.
Disclaimer: Any issue not covered in this prospectus will be governed by Rules &
regulations of AIIMS Bhopal/AIIMS Delhi as applicable