ATME-CICC on women’s empowerment, safety! AIWC secretary general elaborates on types of harassment, provision of laws
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Mysuru: The College Internal Complaint Committee (CICC), ATME College of Engineering (ATMECE), Mysuru had organized a series of events towards Women’s Empowerment and awareness programme on Women’s Safety.
An Online Quiz Competition was conducted on “Constitutional & Legal Rights of the Women”, further, a webinar on “Awareness on Women Safety at Workplace” was organized to educate the students and staff members about the Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Acts towards sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace.
The Resource person, Kuljit Kaur, Secretary General, All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), New Delhi addressed the virtual gathering and educated students about various types of sexual harassment that might occur at workplaces and explained about the differences between courtships and harassment and its impact on women.
Harassment affects personal dignity of women, violates the freedom and creates psychological and physical turmoil.
The resource person also addressed about the provisions of laws, Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act 2013 towards Women’s Safety, Constitution of Internal complaints committee (ICC) at every administrative unit and at Employer workplace and also addressed the key aspects about raising complaint on sexual harassment, Conciliation, Service rules, functions of ICC and also about Duties of Employer discharged at Zero Tolerance towards Harassment.
Around 125 participants attended the webinar including students, staff and public. The objective of the webinar is to discuss about the Types of Sexual Harassment and its impact and measures to be taken to address the issue.
Chandrashekhar C, Assistant Professor and Member Secretary, CICC and Priyanka N B, Assistant Professor and Faculty Member, CICC coordinated the event.
Dr Bhagyashree S R, Chairperson CICC, Prof & Dean- Research, ATMECE, thanked the Resource person Kuljit Kaur for creating awareness and sharing the valuable insights and Hemalatha M A, Executive Council Member and other members of the committee for associating with CICC to organize the Programme.
She also thanked faculty members, students and public for joining the event.
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