Mahatma Gandhi University Students’ Code of Conduct Rules – 2005
- Mahatma Gandhi University Students’ Code of Conduct Rules-2005 introduced vide UO. No. 162/2004/2/Elen. dated 16 February 2005 has laid down rules for maintaining discipline in all Colleges affiliated to the university, which will be binding on all students at the College. The university order prohibits political activity inside the campus. Political activity is defined as “any act, activity or conduct by any student in a college by which political ideologies of any political parties recognized by the Election Commission are preached, professed, imparted or disseminated by speeches, visible representation or other means of communication whatsoever”. Prohibition on political activity inside the campus means the following: –
- No student of a College shall get himself/herself involved in any political activity by himself/herself or abet the said activity to be carried on by fellow students inside the campus in any manner whatsoever and any such activity is hereby banned inside the campus.
- Taking part in any political activity by organizing students or gathering inside the College campus for the purpose of doing any activity as defined in Rule 4 (6) shall constitute serious indiscipline. Every member of such a gathering shall be individually liable and responsible for the gross indiscipline in this regard and the principal has the power to take disciplinary action against students who indulge in the aforesaid activities.
- It shall constitute gross indiscipline to call for an appeal to strike based on policies and ideologies that may be preached by the political parties or their sister organizations or student wings. The participants in the strike as aforesaid shall be dealt with by the disciplinary authority and they will be punished as per the rules stated above.
- No student at a College shall stage or indulge in any activity like dharna, gherao, and the like obstructing entry to and from any class room, office, hall or other places inside the campus and such activities shall be treated as misconduct.
- No student shall shout slogans inside the classrooms, office or any other place inside the campus and obstruct or cause disturbance to the everyday functioning of the institution.