6.4 Every institution shall take the following other measures, namely;
a) Each hostel or a place where groups of students reside, forming part of
the institution, shall have a full-time Warden, to be appointed by the institution
as per the eligibility criteria laid down for the post reflecting both the command
and control aspects of maintaining discipline and preventing incidents of ragging
within the hostel, as well as the softer skills of counselling and communicating
with the youth outside the class-room situation; and who shall reside within the
hostel, or at the very least, in the close vicinity thereof.
b) The Warden shall be accessible at all hours and be available on telephone
and other modes of communication, and for the purpose the Warden shall be
provided with a mobile phone by the institution, the number of which shall be
publicised among all students residing in the hostel.
c) The institution shall review and suitably enhance the powers of Wardens;
and the security personnel posted in hostels shall be under the direct control of
the Warden and their performance shall be assessed by them.
d) The professional counsellors referred to under clause (o) of Regulation
6.1 of these Regulations shall, at the time of admission, counsel freshers and/or
any other student(s) desiring counselling, in order to prepare them for the life
ahead, particularly in regard to the life in hostels and to the extent possible, also
involve parents and teachers in the counselling sessions.
e) The institution shall undertake measures for extensive publicity against
ragging by means of audio-visual aids, counselling sessions, workshops, painting
and design competitions among students and such other measures, as it may
deem fit.
f) In order to enable a student or any person to communicate with the Anti-
Ragging Helpline, every institution shall permit unrestricted access to mobile
phones and public phones in hostels and campuses, other than in class-rooms,
seminar halls, library, and in such other places that the institution may deem it
necessary to restrict the use of phones.
g) The faculty of the institution and its non-teaching staff, which includes
but is not limited to the administrative staff, contract employees, security guards