Ragging is a criminal offence and those who engage in ragging will attract punitive action as per the University Grants Commission (UGC) Regulations. 

Ragging in any form is strictly prohibited at IISER Pune. Prompt punitive action will be taken against anyone who is found to be involved in ragging.

The following details are being provided in the interest of disseminating information on anti-ragging regulations. This is in compliance with communication from the University Grants Commission (UGC).

National Ragging Prevention Programme

National Anti-Ragging Helpline
24x7 Toll-Free  
1800-180-5522
helpline@antiragging.in
www.antiragging.in

UGC Monitoring Agency
Centre for Youth (C4Y)
antiragging@c4yindia.org
www.c4yindia.org

Contact Details of the Anti-Ragging Committee and Squad of IISER Pune

To report a ragging incident, please write to Dean, Student and Campus Activities on dean.sa@iiserpune.ac.in and to the Hostel Committee on hc@iiserpune.ac.in

Details related to the Anti-Ragging Committee (ARC) and Anti-Ragging Squad (ARS) of IISER Pune are in the following office memoranda issued.

Office Memorandum on Anti-ragging Squad; dated August 12, 2024

Office Memorandum on Anti-ragging Committee; dated February 27, 2025

What constitutes Ragging

• 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 indisciplined 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, post, 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.

Administrative action in the event of ragging

• Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges.
• Withholding / withdrawing scholarship / fellowship and other benefits.
• Debarring from appearing in any test / examination or other evaluation process.
• Withholding results.
• Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
• Suspension / expulsion from the hostel
• Cancellation of admission
• Rustication from the institution for period ranging from one to four semesters.
• Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution for a specific period.