Statutory / Regulatory authorities such as University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has reiterated the ban on ragging of learners in Institutions of Higher Education and mandated that every higher education institute has to constitute a committee, with prescribed composition as per norms, to prevent as well as address the issues. The learners admitted in Dr. HNNCE are therefore directed to strictly desist from any kind of ragging in the institute premises. The various forms of ragging include Display of noisy, disorderly conduct, teasing, excitement by rough / rude treatment / handling, including rowdy, undisciplined activities which cause or likely to cause annoyance, undue hardship, physical or psychological harm or raise apprehensive fear in a fresher, or asking the students to do any act or perform something which such a student will not do in the ordinary course and which causes him/her shame or embarrassment or danger to his/her life, etc. Dr. HNNCE shall constitute an Anti-Ragging Committee, as per prescribed guidelines, to eradicate the menace of ragging by taking suggested stringent steps and actions. The Committee shall identify almost all areas in the institute (i.e. canteen, parking places, hostels, different blocks, play grounds, bus stops, etc.) which are likely to be potential areas for doing ragging and deploy student volunteers & secret informers for guarding all such places / areas during the specified timings. The committee shall conduct (b) anti-ragging campaigns in the form of Flexes, Posters and Boards in college premises and surrounding areas where there is a chance of ragging, and (b) conduct awareness programs on Anti - Ragging in the form of meetings and PPTs to the senior students, faculty & non-college personnel. The punishment for participation in/or Abetment of Ragging at Dr. HNNCE include:

1. Cancellation of admission;
2. Suspension from attending lectures and practical’s;
3. Withholding/withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefits;
4. Debarring from appearing in any Internal /semester end examination or other evaluation process;
5. Withholding results of Internal /semester end examination of the college;
6. Debarring from representing the college in any national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc.;
7. Suspension/expulsion from the college hostel;
8. Rustication from the institution for periods varying from 1 to 4 semesters or equivalent period;
9. Expulsion from the college and consequent debarring from admission to any other college/institution;
10. Imposing a fine.