Section 6(4)(a) in UGC Regulations on Curbing The Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009
(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.