(a) The hostels shall be managed by the Hostel Committee consisting of Wardens, Assistant Wardens and Resident Teachers.
(b) Admission to the hostels shall not be automatic to all persons admitted to any Programme in the Institute;
(c) Application for admission to the hostel shall be made in the prescribed form and the admissions shall be made subject to the approval of the Warden;
(d) Every effort shall be made to accommodate all the students in the hostel;
(e) The following categories of students shall not be provided accommodation, namely:- i) students who have not cleared the mess dues of the previous academic year;
ii) students who have not paid hostel deposit and establishment charges in full;
iii) students who are possessing powered vehicles, i.e. two wheelers and four wheelers.
(2) Every student, before being admitted to the hostel, shall give an undertaking in writing, endorsed by the parents or guardian that she or he will abide by the Rules of the hostel;
(3) Students admitted to the hostel shall be boarders thereof;
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(4) Before admission, each student has to pay hostel admission fee, hostel deposit, establishment and other charges, which may be revised from time to time.
CHAPTER V ANTI-RAGGING MEASURES AND PROHIBITION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
30. Anti-ragging measures: (1) Ragging in any form is strictly prohibited in all premises of the Institute, within the premises of the Regional Centres as well as on public transport.
(2) The Head of the Regional Centres or the Head of the Department of the Institute or Warden of the Institute hostel or hall of residence, as the case may be, shall take immediate action on any information of the occurrence of ragging and submit a report of the incident to the Director.
(3) If the authority of the Institute or Warden of hostel or hall is satisfied that, for some reason, to be recorded in writing, it is not reasonably practical to hold such an enquiry, she or he may advise the Director accordingly.
(4) When the Director is satisfied that it is not expedient to hold such an enquiry, she or he may take a decision based on the available facts and circumstances and her or his decision shall be final.
(5) On the receipt of a report or a determination by the relevant authority disclosing the occurrence of ragging incidents, the Director shall direct or order rustication of a student or students for a specific period.
(6) The action against those found guilty of the offence of ragging, depending on the severity of the offence, may be given any of the following punishments, or any combination of them, namely:
(i) direct that any student or students be expelled; or
(ii) any student or students be not, for a stated period, admitted to a Programme of study in the Institute / Regional Centre(s); or
(iii) the results of the student or students concerned in the examination or examinations in which they appeared be cancelled.
(7) In case any students who have obtained degrees of the Institute are found guilty of ragging, appropriate action for withdrawal of degrees conferred by the Institute shall be taken.
(8) For the purpose of this Ordinance, abetment to ragging, whether by way of any act, practice or incitement of ragging, shall also amount to ragging.