These awareness programs on Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace will run from December 9, 2023, to December 15, 2023.
University Grants Commission (UGC) has again reiterated the regulations to prevent sexual harassment of women employees and students in higher educational institutions (HEIs).
UGC has repeatedly issued advisories to the HEIS to take the following actions:
- Constitute an lnternal Complaints Committee (lCC) and a Women's Cell in the institutions under their administrative control to deal with gender-based violence and conduct gender sensitization programmes.
- Display banners and posters at conspicuous places in the buildings so as to create awareness amongst employees about sexual harassment and how to prevent it.
- Display the names and contact details of the members of the Internal Complaints Committee on notice boards in the institutions.
- Upload the following to their respective portals:
- "Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013"
- Details regarding the constitution of the lnternal Complaints Committee, along with contact information of its members such as name. phone number, address, etc
"it is requested that in order to commemorate the notification of this Act, awareness programmes on the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, may be conducted at your university and the affiliated colleges in the week starting from December 9, 2023, to December 15, 2023, to sensitize the students and employees about the provisions of this Act. The details of the programmes conducted by your HEI may be provided to the UGC through email at: ugc.iccgs@gmail.com," reads UGC's statement.
The details regarding compliance may be submitted online on the SAKSHAM portal, i.e.. saksham.ugc.ac.in, at the earliest, added UGC.
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