Objectives:-

• To Prevent sexual harassment by promoting gender amity among staff, student and employees.
• To create a secure physical and social environment for women.
• To conduct periodical programs on women empowerment
• To promote social and psychological environment that will raise awareness about sexual harassment.
• To undertake all necessary and reasonable steps including the constitution of appropriate committees for purposes of gender sensitization and to conduct enquiries into complaints of sexual harassment.

ICC Committee Composition

Policy Statement:

Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) is a mandatory committee that every employer is required to constitute within the organization. In scenarios where the employer has branch offices, he/she needs to have an ICC in each such branch office to address the issues of sexual harassment.

It is also mentioned according to the provisions of the POSH ACT - Harassment of Women at Workplace Act of 2013, dated 9th December 2013 (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal).

It is also mentioned in University Grants Commission Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal of Sexual Harassment of Women Employees and Students in Higher Educational Institutions Regulation, 2015, dated 2nd May 2016.

Anti-Sexual Harassment Cell assures that all complaints of the student teaching and non-teaching staff are treated with dignity and respect, and the complaints should be maintained confidential.

As per the guidelines of UGC, NAAC, and the Supreme Court, an Anti-Sexual Harassment Cell has been established by Savitribai Phule Manila Mahavidyalaya to provide a healthy and congenial atmosphere for the students of the college.

The ICC shall have the following composition:

• A Presiding Officer who shall be a woman faculty member employed at a senior level (not below a Professor in case of a university, and not below an Associate Professor or reader in case of college) at the educational institution, nominate by the Executive Authority.
• Provided that in case a senior level woman employee is not available, the Presiding Officer shall be nominated from other Offices or administrative units of the workplace referred to in Sub-section 2(0).
• Provide further that in case the other offices or administrative units of the workplace do not have a senior level women employee, the Presiding Officer shall be nominated from any other of the workplace of the same employer or other department or Organization."
• Two faculty members and two non-teaching employees preferably committed to the causes of women or who have hand experience in social work or have legal knowledge, nominated by the Execution Authority.
• Campus and/or facilities and to take further action in the regard.
• Conduct formal inquiry and investigate and take decisions upon each complaint and recommend appropriate punishment or action to be taken, by the appropriate authority, in each instance.