Anti Sexual Harassment Committee
Objectives :-
The Committee deals with issues relating to sexual harassment at the R. C. Patel Institute of Management Research and Development, Shirpur. This is to create a safe and harassment-free environment within an institution. The primary goals and objectives of such a committee typically include:
- The primary objective is to prevent sexual harassment from occurring in the Institute premises.
- Prevent discrimination and sexual harassment against women, by promoting gender amity among students and employees
- Deal with cases of discrimination and sexual harassment against women, in a time bound manner, aiming at ensuring support services to the victimized and termination of the harassment;
- Recommend appropriate punitive action against the guilty party.
- Take appropriate actions, which may include disciplinary measures, against individuals found responsible for sexual harassment.
Rules and responsibility
- To take all reasonable steps (active and preventive in nature) to prevent the sexual harassment occurring; To address any oral/written complaint about: unwelcome sexual advances, unsolicited acts of physical intimacy, unwelcome requests for sexual favours or other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature. Unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature includes oral or written, expression, body language, misbehaviour statements of a sexual nature to a person, or in a person's presence.
- Prohibits sexual harassment.
- Complaints of sexual harassment are handled separately for staff and students under the Staff Complaints Policy and Sexual Harassment Complaints Resolution Procedures for students.