St. Joseph's College for Women

The College has constituted Internal Complaint Committee according to the Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2012. ICC is the college’s instrument for addressing issues/grievances/cases of sexual harassment and recommending their redressal.

This is in keeping with Article 21 of the Constitution of India, which assures every individual the right to live with human dignity, free from exploitation. In this spirit, the college’s policy is formulated to prevent sexual harassment of women on the campus. The policy extends to all students, faculty, staff, residents and visitors.

The Committee will take cognizance of all forms of sexual harassment and promote gender sensitisation. This is also in tune with the concern expressed by the University Grants Commission about ensuring a safe environment for women students and employees in educational institutions.

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.

Procedure

The internal complaint committee shall adopt the following steps to resolve/sort out the offences.

The complaint must be lodged with the college authority by the person.

The college authority will forward it to ICC for necessary steps.

The ICC will look into the incidents in a meeting and adopt a resolution for conducting an enquiry into the incident.

Internal Complaints Committee