Ragging: where to get help
If you are being ragged, or you are worried about someone who is, you do not have to handle it alone. These are the official routes for help, checked on 26 October 2026, followed by practical steps for students, parents and witnesses.
Get help
- National Anti-Ragging Helpline: 1800-180-5522, toll free, 24x7.
- E-mail: helpline@antiragging.in.
- Online: the anti-ragging portal at antiragging.in (opens in a new tab), linked from UGC’s website.
- Your institution: its anti-ragging committee, squad or nodal officer, your warden, or the dean of students.
- If anyone is in immediate danger, contact the police.
Helpline number, e-mail and portal as listed on UGC’s home page. Source: UGC home page (opens in a new tab), checked 26 October 2026.
The rules behind it
UGC’s regulations page lists the UGC (Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2009, dated 17 June 2009, together with an amendment of 2012 and a second amendment of 2013. Read the full text there, and your institution’s own anti-ragging policy. Source: UGC regulations page (opens in a new tab), checked 26 October 2026.
The yearly online undertaking
Your institution may ask you and a parent to file an online anti-ragging undertaking on antiragging.in every academic year. For example, a notice from NIT Kurukshetra dated 22 April 2025 says a UGC amendment made this compulsory for each student and every parent. Follow your own institution’s instructions and keep the reference number with your documents. Source: NIT Kurukshetra anti-ragging notice (opens in a new tab), checked 26 October 2026.
If it happens to you
- Get to a safe place, and tell someone you trust: a friend, a senior you trust, family or a teacher.
- Call or e-mail the helpline, or complain through the portal. You can also go straight to your institution’s anti-ragging committee, warden or dean.
- Write down what happened while you remember it: the date, time, place, who was involved and who saw it. Keep messages, screenshots and call logs.
- Ragging can happen outside the hostel too: in a PG, on the way to college, or online. Say where it happened when you report it.
- Look after yourself. If you feel low, anxious or cannot sleep, talk to your institution’s counsellor or a doctor.
For parents and guardians
- Save the helpline and your child’s institution’s anti-ragging contacts before term starts.
- Agree a regular time to talk. If your child seems unusually withdrawn, or does not want to go back, ask gently and listen.
- If your child reports ragging, take it seriously, help them write it down, and use the official routes together.
If you see it happen
You can report it too, through the same helpline, portal or institution contacts. A witness’s account can make it easier for the person being ragged to be believed.
Sources
- UGC home page: anti-ragging section and "Helpline Number @UGC" (opens in a new tab). University Grants Commission (UGC). Checked 26 October 2026.
- UGC Regulations: Student Centric (ragging regulations and amendments) (opens in a new tab). University Grants Commission (UGC). Checked 26 October 2026.
- Notice on the online anti-ragging undertaking, dated 22 April 2025 (opens in a new tab). National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Office of the Dean (Students’ Welfare). Checked 26 October 2026.