Rules and Regulations

GENERAL REGULATIONS

With their enrollment in the college the students have the obligation
to obey the rules and adhere to the discipline of the college. Students
are enjoined to obey the following rules:

1. Students shall join the morning prayer with devotion.
2. Students must be neat and clean in body and spirit and should
   behave with courtesy and dignity. They should show due respect to
   all the members of the staff. Disobedience and misconduct will be
   seriously dealt with.
3. Students should enter their classrooms at the first bell and remain
   in their places in perfect silence. Those who are free during any
   period are not allowed to loiter on the verandahs during the class
   hours. They must go to the reading room.
4. Students must attend classes with regularity and punctuality and
   shall refrain from any action that may disturb the smooth functioning
   of the college.
5. No student shall enter or leave the classroom during the class time
   without the permission of the teacher concerned.
6. No student shall enter other classrooms without the permission of
   the Principal during the class time or intervals.
7. Students are not permitted to approach any college authority in
   groups as such action is subversive of orderly academic life.
8. All college property should be handled with great care and should
   keep the campus clean. Scribbling and spoiling the walls in any
   way are strictly prohibited. Loss or destruction of college property
   will be chargeable individually or collectively. No article or furniture
   shall be displaced.
9. Students must observe the rules of the college. Complaints if any
   must be brought to the notice of the Principal through the class
   teacher.
10. Students should keep their identity cards with them while in the
    campus and produce it on demand for inspection by any member
    of the staff or other college authorities. Identity card is to be produced
    to the office for the issuance of any certificate from the college, for
    remitting fees etc. If the card is lost, duplicate may be issued at the
    students’ expense with the special permission of the Principal.

11. Political activity is strictly banned in the campus. Students shall
    not resort to any strikes, dharna, picketing or conduct any
    procession within the campus. (See item 5 the University Students’
    Code of Conduct Rules 2005)
12. Without prior sanction of the Principal, students are not permitted
    (a) to convene or attend meetings of any sort in any circumstance
    anywhere in the college buildings or its premises,
    (b) to set up entertainments or organise social functions in the
    college, (c) to make use of megaphones and loudspeakers in the
    campus, (d) to invite for any function in the college persons who are
    not on the faculty of the college, (e) to collect subscriptions of any
    kind, (f) to put up notices or host flags of any organisation or to
    display banners, posters etc. anywhere in the campus, (g) to place
    any paper, periodical or book in the reading room or circulate them
    in the college.
13. Smoking, consumption of alcohol and drugs are strictly forbidden
    in the campus and such acts shall invite serious disciplinary action.
14. All correspondence officially addressed to the Principal should
    contain reply postage.
15. All notices to the students will be displayed on the notice board.
16. Any student (1) who is persistently insubordinate (2) who is
    repeatedly or willfully mischievous and (3) who in the opinion of the
    Principal is likely to have an unwholesome influence on his fellow
    students shall be removed from the rolls temporarily or permanently
    or may be served with a compulsory TC according to the gravity of
    the offense. The Principal may refuse the grant of the term certificate
    for a specified period and may also report their case to the University
    for disciplinary action.
17. Students are not allowed to use mobile phones in the college
    campus and Hostels as per G.O.No.RT/No.346/05 Higher
    Edn.Dtd.01.03.2005. Students who violate this rule shall be
    penalized and the phones will be confiscated.
18. Ragging: Ragging of students is forbidden and is punishable by
    rustication or expulsion from the college. As per directives of the
    Honorable Supreme Court and M. G. University Letter No. AC A1/2/
    1647/07 Anti Ragging Squads are made each year to ensure that
    no ragging takes place. (See page No 62) M.G. University Students’
    Code of Conduct Rules 2005.

Kerala Ragging Prohibition Act 1998

1. For the information of the students and their parents, extracts from
   the Kerala Ragging Prohibition Act published in 1998, forbidding
   ragging in the educational institutions of Kerala are quoted below.
   2(B) by Ragging, it is meant any physical or mental torture or any
   disorderly conduct towards any student of an educational institution
   causing apprehension, dread, agitation in him/her.
   It can be any harassment like insulting, teasing, bullying or
   manhandling.
   It can also be forcing upon him/her to do something which he/ she
   voluntarily won’t dare to do normally.
   Prohibition or Ragging: Ragging is prohibited both inside and outside
   an educational institution.
   Punishment for Ragging: Any student involved in ragging/ persuades
   others for ragging or advocated ragging/ either inside or outside an
   educational institution shall be subject to a punishment of not more
   than two years imprisonment in addition to a penalty of not over Rs.
   10,000.00
   Dismissal of Students: A student subject to the punishment under
   section (4) is liable to be dismissed from the institution and is barred
   from being admitted to any other institution for a period of three
   years from the date of receipt of his/her dismissal order.
   Suspension of students: If a student/parent/guardian or any teacher
   of the institution forwards a written complaint to the Head of the
   institution, he/she has to make an urgent enquiry into the matter
   within 7 days of receipt of such a complaint. If the allegation is proved
   to be correct, the accused must be suspended with immediate effect
   and the matter be referred to the police for further proceedings.
   2(1) As is said in sub-section if a written complaint is received by the

head of the institution, he has to make a detailed enquiry and if it is
found baseless, the complainant must be informed of it in writing.
7 Abetting: If the head of the institution refuses to take action in the
manner described under section B or is negligent in initiating any
steps, he is to be treated as one abetting the crime and is liable to
be punished.