Internal Complaints Committee

Objectives, Roles, and Responsibilities of College Internal Complaints Committee

• Prevent discrimination and sexual harassment, by promoting gender amity among students and employees.
• Make recommendations to the management for changes/elaborations in the Rules for students in the Prospectus and the Byelaws, to make them gender sensitive just and to lay down procedures for the prohibition, resolution, settlement, and prosecution of acts of discrimination and sexual harassment, by the students and the 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 to the Management.

Here it should be noted that according to the Supreme Court guideline Sexual harassment can be defined as “unwelcome” sexually determined behaviour (whether directly or by implication) as:

1. Physical contact and advances.
2. Demand or request for sexual favours.
3. Sexually coloured remarks.
4. Showing pornography; and
5. Other unwelcome physical, verbal, or non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature. (Vishaka judgment by Supreme Court)

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

• Eve-teasing
• Unsavory remarks,
• Jokes causing or likely to cause awkwardness or embarrassment,
• Innuendo and taunts,
• Gender based insults or sexist remarks,
• Unwelcome sexual overtone in any manner such as over telephone (obnoxious telephone calls) and the like,
• Touching or brushing against any part of the body and the like,
• Displaying pornographic or other offensive or derogatory pictures, cartoons, pamphlets or sayings,
• Forcible physical touch or molestation and Physical confinement against one’s will and any other act likely to violate one’s privacy.

The Committee shall meet as often as may be needed and appropriate.

Frequency of meeting: Once in a year (beginning of academic year) and as and when necessary.

Complaint Registration

Register your complaints related to Sexual Harassment with any member of the College Internal Complaints Committee (Mobile numbers provided).

Composition

Sl.No.	Name	Designation
1	Dr. Sandhya Ravi	Principal, principalnsftid@nitte.edu.in
2	Ms. Sneha Manjunath	Coordinator, +91-7406254091
3	Ms. Pooja Bekal	Member, +91-9900807477
4	Ms. Aaliya Firdose	Student Representative, III-year Fashion

• For further queries you may please contact:sneha.m@nitte.edu.in

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