Students of NIINS are expected to behave well within the Institute campus, outside it, in the hospital and in their hostels. They are expected to maintain a high level of discipline. Indiscipline of any kind such as disobedience, dishonesty, or any other offensive behavior will lead to punishment including the student’s expulsion from the Institute. The students must strictly adhere to the following code of conduct throughout their course of study:
a) Compassion, honesty, and sincerity in their work should be the qualities that should guide the students of the NIINS.
b) Students must follow the dress code of the NIINS. They should dress themselves neatly and behave politely with the patients, their relatives, staff, superiors and their colleagues.
c) While at the Institute or representing it at other places, students must have with them the valid Identity Card issued by the NIINS. They are obliged to show the ID card whenever the same is demanded by the staff.
d) Students are not allowed to bring any outsiders to the Institute premises.
e) Students are expected to attend classes regularly. Absence from class without plausible reasons will be treated as a violation of rules leading to disciplinary action.
f) Students should be in class at least 5 minutes before its beginning. Students arriving late for class/practical will be marked late/absent.
g) Students must not disfigure the walls of the Institute building with posters, display materials, etc.
h) Students should refrain from taking part in any political or other forms of agitation that would disrupt the discipline of the Institute. Students getting involved in such agitations will be suspended or dismissed, depending on the nature of the involvement and its impact on the Institute.
i) Students are not permitted to organize picnics, excursions, trips, etc. on their own, i.e. without the prior permission of the Principal. The Institute will not be responsible for any accidents or unpleasant events happening as a consequence of the violation of this rule.
j) The Principal shall be the final authority for enforcing all types of disciplinary measures.
k) The use of mobile phones is strictly prohibited in the NIINS, hostels, and hospital.
l) All correspondence (such as complaints, permissions and suggestions) should be addressed to the Principal only.
m) Any item belonging to the school, and if the same is issued to a student, should be kept/used safely by the student concerned. The student will have to replace it or pay its cost if the item gets damaged or it is lost.
n) Students are not allowed to accept any gift in cash/kind from anyone, especially from the patients and their relatives.
o) Students discontinuing the GNM course at any point during the three years will have to pay the entire fees of the program.
p) Eighty per cent attendance for theory classes and hundred per cent for practical sessions are mandatory for all the students.
q) Students must attend special classes whenever they are arranged by their teachers.
r) If a student remains absent from the Institute for more than 15 consecutive days without satisfactory reasons, her/his name will be removed from the rolls of the Institute.
s) While submitting their application for leave, students must clearly state the reason for absence, the dates and the total number of days on which they would like to be on leave.
t) The Principal will be the leave sanctioning authority.
u) The Principal of the Institute also reserves the right to take disciplinary action against the students who violate the code of conduct of the NIINS. The decision taken by the Principal in this regard will be final.
*Ragging is strictly prohibited. Since it is a cognizable offence, stringent action will be taken against students indulging in any form of ragging.*
Anti-Ragging rules
Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:
a. any conduct by any student or students whether by words, spoken or written, or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or any other student;
b. indulging in rowdy or indiscipline activities by any student or students which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other student;
c. asking any student to do any act which such student will not in the ordinary course do and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, or torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of such fresher or any other student;
d. any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher;
e. exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.
f. any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students;
g. any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person;
h. any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, post, public insults which would also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other student ;
i. any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other student.
