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Anti Ragging

National Ragging Prevention Programme

National Anti-Ragging Helpline

24x7 Toll Free: 1800-180-5522

Email: helpline@antiragging.in

Website: www.antiragging.in

UGC Monitoring Agency – Centre for Youth (C4Y)

Email: antiragging@c4yindia.org

Website: www.c4yindia.org

University Nodal Officer

Dr. Anurag Vijaywargiya – Nodal Officer of Anti-Ragging Committee and Squad

Contact: +91 9109977001

RAGGING IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE AND THE CULPRITS WILL ATTRACT PUNITIVE ACTION AS MENTIONED IN THE UGC REGULATIONS.

UGC Regulation PDF: www.antiragging.in/assets/pdf/annexure/Annexure-I.pdf

UGC Official Website: www.ugc.ac.in

Anti-Ragging Policy

SCOURGE OF RAGGING IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE AS PER DIRECTIONS GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA. THE UGC HAS ALSO FRAMED REGULATIONS FOR CURBING THE MENACE OF RAGGING IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

What Constitutes Ragging?

  • Teasing, treating, or handling with rudeness.
  • Causing annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or fear or apprehension thereof.
  • Creating a sense of shame, torment, or embarrassment that affects the physique or psyche.
  • Disrupting or disturbing regular academic activity.
  • Exploiting students for completing academic tasks.
  • Financial extortion or forceful imposition of expenditures.
  • Sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, obscene or lewd acts and gestures, bodily harm.
  • Verbal abuse through spoken words, emails, posts, or public insults.
  • Acts affecting mental health and self-confidence.
  • Criminal intimidation or wrongful restraint.
  • Any behavior undermining human dignity.

Administrative Measures

A student indulging in ragging shall be subject to:

  • Cancellation of admission
  • Suspension from attending classes
  • Withholding or withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefits
  • Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or evaluation process
  • Withholding results
  • Debarring from institutional representation in events, meets, and festivals
  • Suspension or expulsion from the hostel
  • Rustication from the institution for a specified period

Need Help? Feel free to contact in person or email: helpline@opju.ac.in

Anti-Ragging Committee (ARC) & Anti-Ragging Squad (ARS)

S. No. Name of the Faculty Designation Contact No. E-Mail Id
01Dr. Anurag Vijaywargiya
Registrar & Nodal Officer		Registrar & Nodal Officer9109977001registrar@opju.ac.in
02Dr. Mahesh K Bhiwapurkar
Professor & Dean - Mechanical		Member9109977029mahesh.bhiwapurkar@opju.ac.in
03Dr. Ashish K Sharma
Professor & Dean - CSE		Member9637266268ashishk.sharma@opju.ac.in
04Dr. P Srikar
Dy Registrar & Associate Professor - Mechanical		Member7993029129Srikar.p@opju.ac.in
05Dr. Mukesh S. Desai
Sr. Associate Professor - Mechanical & Chief Warden		Member9109977045mukesh.desai@opju.ac.in
06Dr. Trinath Talapaneni
Associate Professor - Metallurgical Engg. & Warden - Boys Hostel		Member8763333171trinath.talapaneni@opju.ac.in
07Prof. Rakesh Patidar
Asst. Professor - EE & Warden - Boys Hostel		Member8109040096rakesh.patidar@opju.ac.in
08Dr. Vikash Kumar
Associate Professor - Management & Warden - Boys Hostel		Member9039642356vikash.kumar@opju.ac.in
09Dr. Mahasakti Mahamaya
Associate Professor - Civil & Warden - Girls Hostel		Member8895841504mahasakti.mahamaya@opju.ac.in
10Prof. Sujata Panda
Sr. Asst. Professor - Management & Warden - Girls Hostel		Member9098736646sujata.panda@opju.ac.in
11Dr. J P Rath
Sr. Assoc. Professor - Management		Member9437165222jp.rath@opju.ac.in
12Dr. Sushree Diptimayee Swain
Associate Professor (Sr. Grade) – EE		Member9109977009sushree.swain@opju.ac.in
13Dr. Saumya Singh
Professor – Mathematics		Member9109977041saumya.singh@opju.ac.in
14Prof. Vinod Nagpure
Asst. Professor (Sr. Grade) – Civil		Member9109977037vinod.nagpure@opju.ac.in
15Dr. Vatsala Chaturvedi
Asst. Professor (Sr. Grade) – Metallurgical Engg.		Member9140480421vatsala.chaturvedi@opju.ac.in
16Dr. R N Shukla
Associate Professor – CSE		Member9109977050rnshukla@opju.ac.in
17Nominee of Police Administration – Ex-OfficioTo be nominated––
18Nominee of Civil AdministrationTo be nominated––
19Mr. Balvinder Singh
Parent’s Representative		–7000183083–
20Nikhil Kumar Singh
Student’s Representative		–8809721661nikh.bt22ee16@opju.ac.in
21Suhani Ghode
Student’s Representative		–9685034849suha.bsc23ma08@opju.ac.in
22Aditya Narayan Singh
Student’s Representative		-9617211583adit.mba2402@opju.ac.in