Internal Complaints Committee

Smt. Kapila Khandvala College of Education

Internal Complaints Committee (ICC)

In pursuance of UGC (Prevention, prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment of women employees and students in higher educational institutions) Regulations 2015, Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) is constituted as under to deal with the complaints relating to sexual harassment at workplace.

Objectives of the Internal Complaints Committee:

To orient students and members of the institution about the functioning of the Internal Complaints Committee.
Assist student or employee in case one wants to file a complaint.
Evolve fair means of preventive measures.
To conduct preliminary enquiry of the allegations reported by gathering documentary evidences as well as recording statements of the witnesses.
To submit the preliminary enquiry report to the principal.
To comply with the procedures and guidelines mentioned in the UGC (Prevention, prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment of women employees and students in higher educational institutions) Regulations 2015.

Constitution

The ICC comprises of the following members:

Sr. No	Office bearers	Name of the Member	Nature
1	Presiding officer	Dr. Smita Gupta	Chair person
2	Two faculty members	Dr. Megha D’souza Dr. Sunil Rajpurkar	Members
3	Two non- teaching employees	Mr. Rajendra Jadhav Ms. Anushree Surve	Members
4	Three students	Ms. Shivani Dalvi Ms. Jaya Rodrigues Ms. Nirmala Kokate	Members
5	A member from NGO or a person familiar with the issues of sexual harassment.	Dr. Subhalakhshmi Kumar, Centre for development education.	Member

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)