No Incident Of Ragging should take place in dental colleges: DCI Issues Guidelines

Delhi: Dental Council of India (DCI) has directed all dental institutes to ensure that no ragging occurs in their colleges, and measures taken to curb the same may be reviewed.

As per section 11.3 of the Regulations above, the authorities/Management (Trust, Societies, etc.) of the institution, particularly the Head of the institution, will be responsible for ensuring that no incident of ragging takes place in the institution. In case any incident of ragging happens, the Management/Head will have to take prompt and appropriate action against the person(s) whose dereliction of duty led to the incident. In its turn, the authority designated to appoint the Head will take prompt and appropriate action against the Head.

DCI has directed dental institutes to designate any of their faculty member(s) as "counselors" for fresher and senior students to co-ordinate the batches of students (counsellors) regularly about day-to-day problems and also to sensitize their role in curbing the menace of ragging.

All the institutes should further be requested to obtain and file undertaking, on anti-ragging, from all parents/guardians and students (1st year to final year) studying in BDSIMDSIPG Diploma/Para Dental Courses or any other course approved/recognized by DCI online through www.antiragging.in  / www.amanmovement.org.

As per section 12.2 of subject regulations, every institution shall submit its reports in the prescribed format (Annexure-10 to the Secretary, Dental Council of India, Aiwan-E-Galib Marg, Kotla Road, New Delhi — 110002, by 30th April of every year in respect of the previous academic session, indicating the requisite information against each column thereof, failing which the Dental Council of India, as per section 11.4 of Regulation on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Dental Colleges, 2009, shall impose any one or any combination of the following penalties on it -

1. To initiate the derecognition process against the institution under section 16A of the Dentists Act, 1948

2. To reduce the institution's admission capacity to the extent the Council deem fit.

3. To stop further admission in the institution till further orders. , 11.4.4 To stop the renewal of permission in respect of UGI.PG Dental Courses.

4. To post the information regarding penalties imposed on the concerned institution on the DCI website for all concerned information.

Further, the Executive Committee of DCI, in its meeting held on 13.10.2018 in New Delhi, has decided that all the requisite information/documents required as per DCI Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Dental Colleges, 2009, will be uploaded on the DCI website and any hard copy of information I documents received by Post or sent by E-mail will not be considered by DCI. Accordingly, the DCI has developed an online module to upload the requisite information/documents on the the DCI website to reduce the paper work and efficiently scrutinise the above data.

All the institutes must upload the requisite information in the prescribed format (Annexure-II as prescribed by DCI Regulations) for the academic session 2022- 2023 on the DCI website by 30.04.2023 as the said information is required to be uploaded as per request of the Monitoring Committee appointed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court on India. If the information is not uploaded by 30.04.2023 on the DCI website, the name of the defaulting institution will be forwarded to the said Monitoring Committee for such appropriate action as may be deemed fit and proper by the said Hon'ble Monitoring Committee, and their names will also be uploaded on DCI website.

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