SRINIVASA

The Women empowerment & protection cell looks into general and academic complaints of the staff and students. It promptly tries to offer solutions for their redressal in periodical meetings of the committee. The staff and students are notified to put their complaints about administration, accounts, finance, library, academics and hostels etc. in the suggestion/complaint boxes located in the main building, library, gents and ladies hostels.

The roles and responsibilities of WEPC are to:

1. Provide an opportunity to be heard to the aggrieved party in case dissatisfied with the decision of the cell, aggrieved may appeal to the Principal within two days and no  appeals entertained later.
2. Advise staff/students to put their grievances in writing in the suggestion/ drop box and/ or to discuss personally with any of the members of the cell to solve the problem.
3. Resolve grievance of behavioral/academic issues between student-student/student-staff/staff-staff.
4. Deal with all categories of grievances of students/staff except on examination cell.
5. Recommend on the punitive action i.e. counsel, penalty, levy, seize, impose, confiscate, sanction, remedy, etc to the Principal.
6. Convey the decision of the grievance cell to the complainant(s) through office of the Principal.

Objectives and Functions of the Committee

1. To prevent sexual harassment by promoting gender amity among staff, students and other employees.
2. To deal with cases of sexual harassment in a time bound manner, aiming at ensuring support services to the victimized, prevention and termination of the harassment.
3. Recommend appropriate redressal and punitive action against the guilty to the Management.
4. To comply with the provisions of the Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (Act) and to develop and implement a policy against sexual harassment of women at the College.
5. To uphold Women's Right to Protection against Sexual Harassment and for the prevention and redressal of sexual harassment of women.
6. To evolve a permanent mechanism for the prevention, prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment of women at College.
7. To actively promote a social, physical and psychological environment that will raise awareness about and deter acts of sexual harassment of women.
8. To undertake all necessary and reasonable steps including the constitution of appropriate committees for purposes of gender sensitization and to conduct enquiries into complaints of sexual harassment.