SEXUAL HARASSMENT COMMITTEE

A Sexual Harassment Committee, often referred to as a Sexual Harassment Committee or an Anti-Sexual Harassment Committee, is a specialized body established within organizations to address issues related to Sexual-based harassment, discrimination, and misconduct. These committees are typically mandated by law or organizational policies to create a safe and respectful working environment free from harassment and discrimination based on Sexual.

The primary objective of a Sexual Harassment Committee is to prevent, address, and redress incidents of Sexual-based harassment, including sexual harassment, verbal abuse, unwanted advances, intimidation, and other forms of misconduct that create a hostile or offensive workplace environment. These committees play a crucial role in promoting Sexual equality, safeguarding the rights and dignity of employees, and fostering a culture of respect, inclusion, and accountability within the organization.

 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Assuring the sexual harassment free academic, work place environment and to prevent sexual harassment by providing protection to women at the workplace.
• Evolving a permanent mechanism for the prevention, prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment of women at workplace.
• Promoting a social and psychological environment to raise awareness on sexual harassment in its various forms.
• Planning and organizing awareness programme on sexual harassment to create a protected physical and social environment to suspend any act of sexual harassment
• Receiving complaints if any from member of the institution claiming sexual harassment in the workplace.
• Any complaint received by the members should be immediately forwarded and this must be notified to other committee members at the earliest and a meeting should be called for discussing the matter.
• The Committee shall discuss and decide to deal with the case or reject the complaint and recommend to the Institute that no action is required to be taken in the matter
• The Committee shall proceed to make inquiry into the complaint in accordance with the provisions of the service rules applicable to the respondent considering sexual harassment as misconduct.
• Ensuring confidentiality with respect to complaints registered and follow up actions.
• Providing a redressal mechanism for complaints relating to sexual harassment at the workplace.

 

Sexual Harassment Committee Members

S. NO	NAME	DESIGNATION	POSITION
1.	Ms. S. SYAMALAGOWRI	HOD/ S&H	Head
2.	Mrs. A. KANNAKI @VASANTHA AZHAGU	Associate Professor/HOD/CSE	Convener
3.	Mrs. ANNARATHINAM	AP/English	External Member
4.	Mrs. S.  AMUDHA	AP/CIVIL	Member
5.	LATHIFA.R	Student	Member
6.	MANOJ.S	Student	Member