Press
Trust of India | New Delhi October 26, 2016
The
women employees of the Central government will soon be able to file sexual
harassment complaints online.
The
decision was taken at a meeting called by Women and Child Development (WCD)
Minister Maneka Gandhi today after she received complaints from aggrieved women
employees from various ministries.
Officials
from Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA), Railway Ministry, Sports Ministry and Department of Financial Services
were present at the meeting.
The
e-platform for posting complaints will be hosted on the Women and Child
Development ministry's website, a senior official said, adding the complaints
will then be taken up with the respective ministries/departments.
An
inter-ministerial committee headed by a senior WCD official will be constituted
to review the status of the complaints. The forum will also ensure that all
Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) heads are imparted training on how to
resolve such complaints, he said.
It
has also been decided that the DoPT will issue instructions to ensure that
training programmes for all services include a module on Sexual Harassment of
Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 to
sensitise the government staff.
Additionally,
the WCD ministry will issue guidelines for dealing with sexual harassment
complaints. These will include a monthly as well as an annual report, to be
prepared by the Internal Complaints Committee of each ministry, on the status
of complaints received.
The
cadre controlling authority of a victim will be required to monitor her
progress for 5 years, in order to ensure that she is not further tormented for
complaining against a colleague, the official said.
A
similar exercise for the private sector is also on the anvil, he added.
The
move comes after several women employees wrote to the WCD ministry about delay
in getting their complaints about sexual harassment resolved.
Source
: http://www.business-standard.com
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