Evaluation is a continuous process, which is based upon criteria developed by the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot as per syllabus/regulations of the University with certain objectives to assess the performance of the learner. This also indirectly helps in the measurement of effectiveness and quality of the concerned BDS programme.

Examination / Evaluation is achieved by two processes

• Internal assessment or Formative - It is done through a series of tests and exams conducted periodically by the institution, attendance and discipline etc. as per university regulations.
• University Examinations or Summative - It is done by the University through examinations conducted during the 4 BDS years as per the University Regulations.

Methods of Evaluation: Evaluation is achieved by the following tested methods.

• Written Test
• Practical Examinations including viva voce

Attendance in classes, class tests, term examinations and marks obtained in these examinations will be taken into consideration in assessing the academic progress of a student and internal assessment marks. Absence from any college examination will not be permitted unless written permission is given by the Head of the Department concerned, in consultation with the Principal. Absence may effect the internal assessment. However, student may be permitted to appear for such college examinations at a later date in case of leave on medical grounds/emergencies with special permission of the Principal.

Disciplined behaviour of every student within the college campus and hostels is mandatory

• Students will not take part in agitations of any kind. Grievances, if any, should be immediately brought to the notice of the grievance committee/hostel warden/principal in writing. Any student found guilty of instigating the fellow students for an agitation/strike may be suspended/expelled from the college.
• Students found guilty of willful disobeyance of rules of college and hostel or misrepresentation of facts will be liable to strict disciplinary action.
• No press conferences/ press statements are allowed to be held/ given without prior written permission of the Principal. Defaulters will face strict disciplinary action.
• Rude / Discourteous / indecent behaviour towards college / hostel staff will invite strict disciplinary action that may include suspension or expulsion from hostel or college.
• Students are not allowed to paste any notice within the institution without prior permission from the Principal and are forbidden to communicate with any outside authority directly. All such communications must be submitted through the Principal who may forward these for further action to the concerned, as deemed fit. Any student infringing this rule will be suspended.
• The college shall not be responsible for debts incurred by the student.
• Students must pay/replace for damages caused by them to books, equipment, instrument, apparatus etc. and other college property, at the rate of market price at the time of such breakage or replace the item.
• The following acts are strictly forbidden inside the institution:
  • The possession or use of alcoholic beverages and non-vegetarian foods / snacks
  • The possession or use of addictive or hallucinogenic drugs
  • Gambling
  • The possession or use of firearms or any lethal weapons
  • Loitering around unnecessarily
  • Use of Mobile in class rooms/clinics and in campus during college hours
• Students must arrange for washable white coats, which must be worn at all times in the college campus. Students must get stitched green strip (s) of cloth (3cm in length, 1 cm in width with 1/2 cm distance between two strips), horizontally on their left sleeve of coat. The number of strips represent the BDS year in which the student is currently studying in. E.g. one strip BDS 1st Year, two Strips BDS 2nd Year and so on.
• Students are required to wear formal/decent dress during college hours. Jeans, T-Shirts and Sports Shoes are strictly prohibited. Girl Students must put their hair up and wear a hair band, when at work in the college or hospital.
• Students are required to procure their own instruments for use in practical classes/clinics.
• Students are not allowed to visit each others' place of clinical posting for any reason until and unless permitted by clinical instructor / demonstrator / supervisor.
• Students are not allowed to leave their place of duty without prior permission.
• Students will observe high degree of co-ordination/ co-operation and politeness among each other while taking care of patients in the ward / department.
• Students will leave the ward / department only after handing over the charge / care / treatment of their assigned patients to the staff nurse / teacher.
• Punctuality, discipline, proper uniform, good behaviour and professional ethics must be observed in teaching / clinical area.
• Violation of performance of duties as per duty roaster is punishable. 18. Late corners will be treated as absent.
• All incidents of neglect of duty by students, breach of rules and acts of indiscipline shall be brought to the notice of the Principal by the respective HOD, who will take appropriate action as deemed fit.
• The decision of the governing body in all disputes would be final and binding on to the students.

The order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India regarding punishment for ragging is as follows:

"If any incident of ragging comes to the notice of the authority, the concerned student shall be given liberty to explain and if his / her explanation is not found satisfactory, the authority would expel him/ her from the institution".

DCI Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Dental Colleges, 2009.

DENTAL COUNCIL OF INDIA NOTIFICATION

New Delhi. 31^st July, 2009

No. DE-167-2008.-ln exercise of the powers conferred by clause (i) of Sub-Section 2 of Section 20 of the Dentists Act. 1948 (16' of 1948) and directives dated 25.3.2009 issued by the Raghvan Committee, constituted by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in its Order dated 16.5.2007 in Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No.(s) 2429512004 from the judgment and order dated 24.6.2004 in WP No. 30845/2003 of the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam, Dental Council of India, with the previous approval of the Central Government, hereby makes the following relevant Regulations :

Short Title and Commencement

• These Regulations may be called the DCI Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Dental Colleges, 2009.
• They shall come into farce from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

Various Types of Ragging

The Raghvan Committee constituted by the Hon'ble Supreme Court has, inter-alia, mentioned the following types of ragging:

• Ragging has several aspects with, among others, psychological, social, political, economic, cultural and academic dimensions.
• Any act that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of a student should be considered with in the academics related aspect of ragging; similarly exploiting the services of a junior student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of seniors is also an aspect of academics related ragging prevalent in many institutions, particularly in the professional institutions in medicine.
• Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put an a junior student by senior students should be considered an aspect of ragging for ragging economic dimensions.
• Any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd ads, gestures, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person can be put in the category of ragging with criminal dimensions.
• Any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, snail-mails, public insults should be considered with in the psychological aspects of ragging. This aspect would also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to others; the absence of preparing 'freshers' in the run up to their admission to higher education and life in hostels also can be ascribed as a psychological aspect of ragging - coping skills in interaction with seniors or strangers can be imparted by parents as well. Arty act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of students also can be described in terms of the psychological aspect. of ragging.
• The political aspect of ragging is apparent from the fact that incidents of ragging are low in institutions which promote democratic participation of students in representation and provide an identity to students to participate in governance and decision making within the institute bodies.
• The human rights perspective of ragging involves the injury caused to the fundamental right to human dignity through humiliation heaped an junior students by seniors; often resulting in the extreme step of suicide by the victims.

Directions of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India Regarding Curbing the Menace of Ragging

• Primary responsibility for curbing ragging rests with academic institutions themselves.
• Ragging adversely impacts the standards of higher education.
• Incentives should be available to institutions for curbing the menace and there should be disincentives for failure to do so.
• Enrolment in academic pursuits or a campus life should not immunize any adult citizen from penal provisions of the laws of the land.
• Ragging needs to be perceived as failure to inculcate human values from the schooling stage.
• Behavioural patterns among students, particularly potential raggers' , need to be identified.
• Measures against ragging must deter its recurrence.
• Concerted action is required at the level of the school, higher educational institution, district administration, university, State and Central Governments to make any curb effective.
• Media and the Civil Society should 6e involved in this exercise.

The Committee has made several recommendations. For the present, we feel that the following recommendations should be implemented without any further lapse of time.

• The punishment to be meted out has to be exemplary and justifiably harsh to act as a deterrent against recurrence of such incidents
• Every single incident of ragging where the victim or his parent/guardian or the Head of institution is not satisfied with the institutional arrangement for action, a First Information Report must be filed without exception by the institutional authorities with the focal police authorities. Any failure on the part of the institutional authority or negligence or deliberate delay in lodging the FIR with the local police shall be construed to be an act of culpable negligence on the part of the institutional authority. If any victim or his parent/guardian of ragging intends to file FIR directly with the police, that will not absolve the institutional authority from the requirement of filing the FIR.
• Courts should make an effort to ensure that cases involving ragging are taken up on a priority basis to send the correct message that ragging is not only to be discouraged but also to be dealt with sternness.

In the prospectus to be issued for admission by educational institutions, it shall be clearly stipulated that in case the applicant for admission is found to have indulged in ragging in the past or if it is noticed later that he has indulged in ragging, admission may be refused or he shall be expelled from the educational institution.

The Central Government and the State Governments shall launch a programme giving wide publicity to the menace of ragging and the consequences which follow in case any student is detected to have been involved in ragging.

Anti-ragging committees and squads shall be forthwith formed by the institutions and it shall be the job of the committee or the squad, as the case my be, to see that the committee's recommendations, more particularly those noted above, are observed without exception and if it is noticed that there is any deviation, the same shall be forthwith brought to the notice of this Court.

The committee constituted pursuant to the order of this Court shall continue to monitory the functioning of the anti-ragging committees and the squads to be formed. They shall also monitor the implementation of the recommendations to which reference has been made above....."

Extracts of the Judgment of Hon'ble Supreme Court dated 8.5.2009 in Civil Petition No. 887 of 2009 in the matter of University of Kerala vs. Council, Principal colleges, Kerala are also enclosed at Annexure-A for information, guidance and strict compliance by the dental institutions.

Objective

To root out ragging in all its forms from dental colleges/institutions in the country by prohibiting it by law, preventing its occurrence by following the provisions of these Regulations and punishing those who indulge in ragging as provided for in these Regulations and the appropriate law in force.

Definitions:- For the purposes of these Regulations:

• "Institution / College" means any dental college/institution established in accordance with provisions of the Dentists Act, 1948 and regulations made thereunder as amended from time to time, forthe Purpose of imparting dental education in the country.
• "Head of the institution" means the 'Principal/Dean' (or by whatever designation may be called) of the dental college/institution.
• "Ragging" means any conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating -or handling with rudeness any other student, indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student or asking the students to do any act or perform something which such student will not in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or-embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student.

Punishable ingredients of Ragging

• Abetment to ragging
• Criminal conspiracy to rag
• Unlawful assembly and rioting while ragging
• Public -nuisance created during ragging
• Violation of decency and morals through ragging
• Injury to body, causing hurt or grievous hurt
• Wrongful restraint
• Wrongful confinement
• Use of criminal force
• Assault as well as sexual offences or even unnatural offences
• Extortion
• Criminal trespass
• Offences against property
• Criminal intimidation
• Attempts to commit any or all of the above mentioned offences againstthe victim(s)
• Physical or psychological humiliation
• All other offences flowing from the definition of "Ragging".

Measures for Prohibition of Ragging at The Institution Level

• The institution shall strictly observe the provisions of the Act of the Central Government and the State Governments, if any, or if enacted, considering ragging as a cognizable offence under the law on a par with rape and other atrocities against women and ill-treatment of persons belonging to the SC/ST, and prohibiting ragging in all its forms in all institutions.
• Ragging in all its forms shall be totally banned in the entire institution, including its departments, constituent units, all its premises (academic, residential, sports, canteen, etc) whether located within the campus or outside and in all means of transportation of students, whether public or private.
• The institution shall take strict action against Nose found guilty of ragging and/or of abetting. ragging.

Measures for Prevention of Ragging at the Institution Level

Before Admissions

• The advertisement for admissions shall clearly mention that ragging is totally banned in the institution, and anyone found guilty of ragging and/or abetting ragging is liable to be punished appropriately (for punishments, ref, section 11 below).
• The application for admission shall be accompanied by a document in the form of the School Leaving Certificate/Transfer Certificate/ Migration Certificate/Character Certificate, as the case may be, which shall include a report on the behavioral pattern of the applicant, so that the institution can thereafter keep intense watch upon a student who has a negative entry in this regard.
• A student seeking admission to the hostel shall have to submit additional undertaking in the form of Annexure-I (both Parts) along with his/her application for hostel accommodation.
• The institution shall utilize the vacation period before the start of the new academic year to launch wide publicity campaign against ragging through' posters, leaflets. seminars, street plays, etc.
• The faculties/departments/units of the institution shall have induction arrangements (including those which anticipate, identify and plan to meet any special needs of any specific section of students) in place well in advance of the beginning of the academic year with a clear sense of the main aims and objectives of the induction process.

On Admission

• Every fresh student admitted to the institution shall' be given a printed leaflet detailing when and to wham he/she has to turn to for help and guidance for various purposes (including Wardens, Head of the institution, members of the anti-ragging committees, relevant district and police authorities), addresses and telephone numbers of such person s/authorities, etc., so that the fresher need not look up to the seniors for help in such matters and get indebted to them and start doing things, right or wrong, at their behest. Such a step will reduce the 'freshers' dependence on their seniors.
• The institution, through the leaflet mentioned above, shall explain to the new entrants the arrangements for their induction and orientation which promote efficient and effective means of integrating them fully as students.
• Freshers shall be encouraged to report incidents of ragging, either as victims, or even as witnesses.

At the End of the Academic Year

• At the end of every academic year the Principal/Dean shall send a letter to the parents/guardians of the students who are completing the first year. informing them about the law regarding ragging and the punishments, and appealing to them to impress upon their wards to desist from indulging in ragging when they come back at the beginning of the next academic session.
• At the end of every academic year the institution shall form a 'Mentoring Cell' consisting of Mentors for the succeeding academic year. There shall be as many levels or tiers of Mentors a:; the number of batches in the institution, at the rate of 1 Mentor for b freshers and 1 Mentor of a higher level for 6 Mentors of the lower level.

Setting up of Committees and their Functions

The Anti-Ragging Committee: The Anti-Ragging Committee shall be headed by the Head of the institution and shall consist of representatives of faculty members, parents, students belonging to the freshers' category as well as seniors and non-teaching staff. It shall consider the recommendations of the Anti-Ragging Squad and take appropriate decisions, including spelling out suitable punishments to those found guilty.

The Anti-Ragging Squad: The Anti-Ragging Squad shall be nominated by the Head of the institution with such representation as considered necessary and shall consist of members belonging to the various sections of the campus community. The Squad shall have vigil, oversight and patrolling functions. It shall be kept mobile, alert and active at all times and shall be empowered to inspect places of potential ragging and make surprise raids on hostels and other hot spots. The Squad shall investigate incidents of ragging and make recommendations to the Anti-Ragging Committee and shall work under the overall guidance of the said Committee.

Monitoring Cell an Ragging: The institution shall have a Monitoring Cell on Ragging to coordinate with activities of the Anti-Ragging Committees, Squads and Mentoring Cells, regarding compliance with the instructions on conducting orientation programmes, counseling sessions, etc., and regarding the incidents of ragging, the problems faced by wardens and other officials, etc, This Cell shall also review the efforts made by them to publicize anti-ragging measures, cross-verify the receipt of undertakings from candidates/students and their parents/guardians every year, and shall be the prime mover for ' initiating action to facilitate the implementation of anti ragging Measures at the level of the institution.

Other Measures

• The Annexures mentioned in 9.1.4, 9.1.5 and 9.1.7 of these Regulations shall be furnished at the beginning of each academic year by every student, that is, by freshers as well as seniors.
• Wardens shall be appointed as per the eligibility criteria laid down by UGC or any other competent authority of the concerned University/the. State Govt. for the post reflecting both the command and control aspects of maintaining discipline, as well as the softer skills of counseling and communicating with the youth outside the class-room situations. Wardens shall be accessible at all hours and shall be provided with mobile phones. The institution shall review and suitably enhance the powers and perquisites of Wardens and authorities involved in curbing the menace of ragging.
• The security personnel posted in hostels shall be under the direct control of the Wardens and assessed by them.
• The Head of the institution shall take immediate action on receipt of the recommendations of the Anti-Ragging Squad. He/She shall also take action suo motto if the circumstances so warrant.
• Freshers who do not report the incidents of ragging either as victims or as witnesses shall also be punished suitably.
• Anonymous random surveys shall be conducted across the 1 st year batch of students (freshers) every fortnight by the institution on during the first three months of the academic year to verify and cross-check whether the campus is indeed free of ragging or not. The institution may design its own methodology of conducting such surveys.
• The burden of proof shall lie on the perpetrator of ragging and not on the victim.
• The institution shall file an FIR with the police/local authorities whenever a case of ragging is reported, but continue with its own enquiry and other measures without waiting for action on the part of the police/local authorities. Remedial action shall be initiated and completed within one week of the incident itself.
• The Migration / Transfer Certificate issued to the student by the institution shall have an entry, apart from those relating to general conduct and behaviour, whether the student has been punished for the offence of committing or abetting ragging, or not, as also whether the student has displayed persistent violent or aggressive behaviour or any inclination to harm others.
• Preventing or acting against ragging shall be the collective responsibility of all levels and sections of authorities or functionaries in the institution, including faculty, and not merely that of the specific body/committee constituted for prevention of ragging.

Measures for Encouraging Healthy Interaction Between Freshers and Seniors

• The institution shall set up appropriate committees including the course-incharge, student advisor, Warden and some senior students to actively monitor, promote and regulate healthy interaction between the freshers and senior students.
• 'Freshers' welcome parties shall be organized in each department by the senior students and the faculty together soon after admissions, preferably within the first two weeks of the beginning of the academic session, for proper introduction to one another and where the talents of the freshers are brought out properly in the presence of the faculty, thus helping them to shed their inferiority complex, if any, and remove their inhibitions.
• The institution shall enhance the student-faculty interaction by involving the students in all matters of the institution, except those relating to the actual processes of evaluation and of faculty appointments, so that the students shall feel that they are responsible partners in managing the affairs of the institution and consequently the credit due to the institution for good work/performance is due to them as well.

Punishments

At the institution level: Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offence as established by the Anti-Ragging Committee of the institution, the possible punishments for those found guilty of ragging at the institution level shall be any one or any combination of the following:

• Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges
• Withholding / with drawing scholarship / fellowship and other benefits
• Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or other evaluation process
• Withholding results
• Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.
• Suspension/expulsion from the hostel
• Cancellation of admission
• Rustication from the institution for period ranging from 1 to 4 semesters
• Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution for a specified period
• Fine ranging between Rupees 25,000/- and Rupees 1 lakh
• Collective punishment: When the persons committing or abetting the crime of ragging are not identified, the institution shall resort to collective punishment.