Internal Compliance Cell

In compliance with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, St.Mary’s College, Manarcad has formulated a special cell to address any such offense or complaints with strict corrective activities which will be at standard with those issued in the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition And Redressal) Act, 2013 distributed in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, PART II-Section 1 under the Legislative Department of Ministry of Law and Justice.

St.Mary’s College, Manarcad ensures sexual orientation correspondence and equity in the entirety of its mediations and practices. The activities of Anti-Sexual Harassment Committee of the college also helps to ensure the compliance of Act, 2013.

Objectives:

• Prohibition of any various posed persecution practiced in view of sex imbalance that forbids scholarly or scholastic development.
• Prevention of sexual orientation one-sided disposition with regards to the settling of the viability of work dispensed inside working hours.
• Protection of the basic privileges of women.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• To assist ladies with realizing their rights of Freedom.
• To regard inappropriate behaviour as an offense and start reformatory activities for such wrongdoing.
• To help the distressed lady to put the grumbling.
• To protect the person who is exploited.

Types of Sexual Harassment:

• Any unwelcome lewd gestures, demands or interest for sexual favours, either unequivocally or verifiable, as an end-result of work, advancement, examination or assessment of a man towards any organization movement.
• Any unwelcome lewd gestures including verbal, non-verbal, or physical direct, for example, explicitly hued comments, jokes, letters, telephone calls, email, SMS, motions, demonstrating erotic entertainment, shocking gazes, physical contact or attack, stalking, sounds, show of pictures, signs, verbal or non-verbal correspondence which affronts the person’s sensibilities and influences her/his execution.
• Entry into particular territories reserved for female workers and understudies, with the expectation to submit insidiousness and provocation.
• Eve teasing, allusions and insults, physical imprisonment without wanting to and interruption into one’s protection.
• Act or direct by a man in power which makes an antagonistic situation at the work environment or  scares the individual having a place with the other sex.

Procedure of Complaint:

Any bothered woman would hold up the objection in composed and would submit it to the Committee of the college addressing the Chairman or convener. The Internal Committee may before starting the procedure of request find a way to determine the issue between the distressed lady and the respondent through mollification.