State Act

THE ASSAM PROHIBITION OF RAGGING ACT, 1998

2. In-this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:- (a) "Educational Institution" means any college, having Degree classes and/or Higher Secondary classes and/or Post Graduate classes, Junior college and any level of classes above the High School standard, Engineering college or University administered, managed, controlled or run by the Government or otherwise and includes any hostel, boarding, play ground, road, vehicle, premises and other places having nexus with the aforesaid institutions imparting education ; (b) "Government" means the State Government or the Central Government as the case may be ; (c) "ragging" means either display of noisy or disorderly conduct or doing of any act which causes or likely to cause social, physical or psychological harm or raise apprehension or fear or shame or embarrassment to any student in any eduactional institution, and includes - (i) teasing, abusing of, playing practical jokes on or causing hurt to such student, or (ii) asking the student to do any act or perform something which such student will not, in the ordinary course, willingly do ; (d) "State Government" means the Government of Assam; (e) "Victimised student" means a student who is a victim of ragging.