Internal Complaints Cell

Vision and Mission

Vision: – 

            To envision a safe environment and protection against sexual harassment of women at college and for redressal of ensure gender equality.

Mission:-

• To develop a policy against sexual harassment for women.
• To ensure the implementation of the policy in letter and spirit through proper reporting of the complaints.
• To uphold the committee of the institute to provide an environment free of gender based discrimination.

Objectives, Roles and Responsibilities of college Internal Complaints Committee (ICC)

• Prevent discrimination and sexual harassment by promoting gender unity among students and employees.
• Make recommendations to the management for the changes/collaboration in the rules for students in the prospectus and by laws to make them gender just and lay down procedures for the prohibition, resolution, settlement and prosecution of acts discrimination and sexual harassment, by the student or employs.
• Deal with the 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 to the management. Here it should be noted that according to the supreme court guild lines sexual harassment can be defined as “unwelcome” sexually determined behaviour as:

1. Physical contact and advances:
2. Demand and request for sexual favours:
3. Sexually collared remarks:
4. Showing pornography and, 
5. Other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal contact of sexual nature.

• The following is also sexual harassment and is covered by the committee:

1. Eve-teasing.
2. Unsavoury remarks.
3. Jokes causing or likely to cause awkwardness or embarrassment.
4. Gender based insult or sexual remarks and
5. Forcible physical touch or molestation.

• Frequency of meeting: one in a year and as and when necessary.

Procedure upon filing of complaint.

1. Meeting will be held if a complaint is received by any member. 
2. The written complaint is taken and the committee prepares and submits the detailed statement of the incidents within two days.
3. An enquiry will be held with the members of Internal complaints Committee
4. The issue will be discussed and finalized within seven days 
5. File the minutes of the inquiry. 

Contact Persons: 

KR PURAM POLICE STATION PHONE NO – 08022942553