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 Students‘ grievances usually tend to be around shortage of attendance for the
semester exam or issues with marks entry or complaints against individual teachers.
 Students feel aggrieved when they feel they have not been listened to. So after
obtaining the written complaint, parties involved are called separately first and then
together, if required.
 When student feedback was collected on campus services, the complaints appeared
to be related to infrastructure constraints and some related to the library, which have
since been attended to.
 A limitation to this mechanism is that the requirement of providing complaints in
writing often discourages students from following up. Therefore the problem is
better addressed by Mentors, Welfare Officers, and senior teachers. If serious issues
are identified, the concerned teacher or other persons involved are informed and the
Principal is also informed about it.

*5.1.15. Does College have a cell and a mechanism to resolve issues of sexual
harassment?

 By and large, College witnesses cordial relationships among the men and women
students on campus. However, being a co-educational institution, some issues relating
to conflict in interpersonal relationship between men and women students are bound
to arise.
 As per the UGC guidelines, Anti-Sexual Harassment Cell was started in 2011 under
the third cycle of NAAC and it was made compulsory by the Supreme Court in 2013
to have a sexual harassment cell at the work place. Thus, an Anti-Sexual Harassment
Cell and a Gender Sensitisation Cell have been operative in College during the
current assessment cycle.
 The Anti-Sexual Harassment Cell has become an internal complaints committee.
The committee works under the guidance of three teachers, of which one is a male
member, two female members and one outsider. There are two teaching, two non-
teaching, three student co-coordinators (a postgraduate student, an undergraduate
student and a research student) from our College and an NGO representative, a legal
advisor and the convenor, who is a female teacher. There were complaints filed by
students against staff, and staff against students. These were investigated by the
committee and finally resolved with the Principal in attendance. There were three
such cases in the year 2013-14, and three in 2014-15. In 2015-16, there were no
complaints filed by students.
 The Cell has organized two sessions on Gender Sensitization at the Workplace for
the entire faculty to make every member aware of the seriousness of these issues.
 Courses and research including the gender dimension have become important in
social sciences curricula and continuous efforts are on to address this issue if it arises.
 The robust counseling and mentoring system has been helpful to students. College
believes in acting to prevent such incidents.

5.1.16. Is there an anti-ragging committee? How many instances (if any) have
been reported during the last four years and what action has been taken on
these?
 Yes, there is an anti-ragging committee on College premises.
 Notices relating to anti-ragging are posted on all student notice-boards and students
are informed about this during the orientation program.

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