For the overall wellbeing of the students during their tenure on campus, HL has various support facilities. The Principal is the ex-officio member of each of the following:
Anti-Ragging Policy
The College has a coherent and an effective anti-ragging policy in place which is based on the UGC Regulation on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Colleges, 2009 [hereinafter referred to as the UGC Regulations]. The UGC Regulations have been framed in view of the directions issued by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India to prevent and prohibit ragging in all Indian Educational Colleges. The said UGC Regulations shall apply mutatis mutandis to the College and the students are requested kindly to follow them.
Ragging constitutes one or more 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 any 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 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 a student;
- any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any student;
- exploiting the services of a 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 student by other students;
- any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, 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 any other student;
- any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of 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 other student.
Punishments
A student found guilty will attract one or more of the following punishments depending on the facts and circumstances of each incident of ragging and nature and gravity of the incident of ragging, as imposed by the Anti-Ragging Committee:
- Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges.
- Debarring from appearing in any test/ examination or other evaluation process.
- Withholding results.
- Debarring from undertaking any collaborative work.
- Suspension/ expulsion from the hostels and mess.
- Cancellation of admission. Expulsion from the college and consequent debarring from admission to any other college for a specified period.
- In cases where the persons committing or abetting the act of ragging are not identified, the College shall resort to collective punishment.
- If need be, in view of the intensity of the act of ragging committed, a First Information Report (FIR) shall be filed by the College with the local police authorities.
Sexual Harassment Prevention Policy
The UGC’s Policy on Prevention and Prohibition of sexual harassment at Workplace 2016 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the students of the College. Students should note that sexual misconduct or harassment encompasses a range of conduct, including but not limited to sexual assault, unwanted touching or persistent unwelcome comments, e-mails, or pictures of an insulting or degrading sexual nature, which may constitute harassment, which shall depend of the circumstances of each case.