Sexual Harassment within the Campus:

Rules and Regulations

Based on the Vishaka Guidelines by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in 2010, Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, Commonly Sexual Harassment Act was passed at the Legislative Assembly on December 9, 2013. The college authorities provide a mechanism to redress grievances pertaining to sexual harassment within the college premises.

Forms of Sexual Harassment:

• Any unwelcome sexually determined acts or behaviour (whether directly or by implication) such as physical contact and advances, demand or request for sexual favours, sexually coloured remarks, showing pornography, or any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature.
• The presence or occurrence of circumstances of implied or explicit promise of preferential treatment, threat of detrimental treatment, interference with work or creating an intimidating or offensive or hostile work environment, or humiliating treatment likely to effect a persons’ health or safety.

Objectives:

The Objectives of the ICC is to develop healthy and safe atmosphere for the faculty and students of the College and to prevent sexual harassment or exploitation of any kind.The ICC is formed mainly to execute the prevention of sexual harassment policy outlined by the UGC/Supreme Court. Therefore, the committee upholds the following objectives:

• To prevent and prohibit incidents of sexual harassment of female employees and students in the college.
• To sensitize the female employees and students about the fundamental rights to have a safe and healthy environment in the college.

Policy:

• Regular orientation / sensitisation programmes towards awareness of laws, safety guidelines in college and means of seeking redress in case of harassment
• Regular tracking of reported incidents of sexual harassment and disposal of incidents with detailed records.
• Frequent meetings among members, on policy execution and reporting.
• Reports to be included in summarized format in the Annual Report

Procedure:

• The authority will forward it to ICC for necessary step.
• The ICC will look into the matter (s)/ incidents (s) in a meeting and adopt resolution for conducting an enquiry into the incident (s).
• Refer the case(s) to the college authority in case of serious· offence.
• Refer the case(s) to the legal authority by the college authority· if needed.

Actions to Be Taken:

• Maintaining active mobile helpline and/or email, direct connectable personnel for lodging of complaints.
• Keeping detailed record of complaint lodged, nature of investigation and final outcome of disposal / redress.
• Counselling records of victim.
• Redress of complaints by verbal or formal warnings, suspension or dismissal, even invoking the police and local stakeholders if necessary.

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