Internal Complaints Committee

RESPONSIBILITIES OF ICC:

• Organize awareness programmes and campaigns for the benefit of all members of the College on sexual harassment and gender based discrimination.
• Conduct formal inquiry and investigate and take decisions upon each complaint and recommend appropriate punishment or action to be taken, by the appropriate authority, in each instance.
• Receive and redress complaints received from any member of the College (including students, research scholars, staff, hostel residents and outsiders on College premises)alleging sexual harassment by another member(s) of the College.
• Ensure that all information pertaining either to complaints registered and the proceedings and findings of any inquiries and/or investigations are kept strictly confidential.

FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE PREVENTIVE STEPS

• To facilitate a safe environment that is free of sexual harassment.
• To promote behaviors that create an atmosphere that ensures gender equality and equal opportunities.

REMEDIAL STEPS

• To ensure that the mechanism for registering complaints is safe, accessible and sensitive.
• To take cognizance of complaints about sexual harassment, conduct enquiries, provide assistance and redressal to the victims,
  recommend penalties and take action against the harasser, if necessary.
• To advise the competent authority to issue warnings or take the help of the law to stop the harasser, if the complainant consents.
• To seek medical, police and legal intervention with the consent of the complainant.
• To make arrangements for appropriate psychological, emotional and physical support (in form of counseling, security and other assistance) to the victim if so desires.