Grievance-Committee

Grievance-Committee Guidelines

The Grievance and Redressal Cell desires to promote and maintain a conducive and unprejudiced environment for its stakeholders. It attends to the grievances and complaints registered by anyone with regard to the activities of the Institution, and in particular, those made by students. The Cell ensures effective solutions to the grievances, using a fair approach.

The Grievance and Redressal Cell enables the students to express their grievances by initiating and following the grievance procedure in accordance with the rules and regulations of the College. The cell meets periodically, examines the nature and pattern of the grievances and redresses it accordingly.

Objectives

1. To develop an organizational framework to resolve the grievances of the students and other
2. To ensure effective solutions to the stakeholders’ grievances with an impartial and fair approach
3. To investigate the reason of
4. To enlighten the students on their duties and

Grievance and Redressal Cell Composition

• Principal
• Vice-Principal
• Grievance and Redressal Coordinator
• Member
• Member
• Non-teaching Staff Member
• Students

Functions of the Grievance and Redressal Cell

1. Provides information about the Cell’s objectives and mode of operation through the website and
2. Informs students of the process for registering of grievances in the Induction
3. Acknowledges and Analyzes the
4. Seeks a solution through the decision-making process
5. Reports the grievances and records how they were
6. The procedures made known through the Handbook, given to each student at the beginning of every academic year, and also in the Value Education classes taken by the Class-in-Charge

Procedures

The Grievance and Redressal Cell shall receive and redress the grievances of the following issues:

• Academic issues pertaining to teaching, learning and evaluation
• Student-teacher, student-student grievances
• Grievances related to library, canteen and IT
• Grievances related to sports, cultural
• Grievances related to the behaviour of stakeholders

1. The grievances shall be redressed depending on the nature of the grievance. The Grievances are invited through suggestion boxes provided in each floor of the
2. Department-level counselling is offered where the matter can be resolved
3. Grievances pertaining to academic and internal evaluation shall be redressed at the individual/faculty /HOD/ principal
4. For other grievances that require review shall be redressed by receiving a written and signed
5. As soon as the application is received the Redressal Committee shall review the complaint and invites both parties for discussion. The outcome of the discussion is reported to the Principal for further action to be

Redressal of Grievances

The grievances are redressed at the earliest by issuing warning letters, memos and reformation remedies. Priority is given according to the urgency of the complaint. In all cases, the aggrieved

is informed of the measures taken. Checks in the system are introduced to ensure there is no repetition of the same complaint.

All the grievances concerning to women’s harassment and ragging shall be dealt by the respective committees as per the prescribed procedures.

 

Anti Sexual Harassment Cell Guidelines

As per the Supreme Court Judgment and guidelines issued in the year 1997 to provide for the effective enforcement of the basic human right of gender equality and guarantee against sexual harassment and abuse, more particularly against sexual harassment at workplaces, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued circulars since 1998, to all the universities, advising them to establish a permanent cell and a committee and to develop guidelines to combat sexual harassment, violence against women and ragging in colleges and universities. Keeping the above guidelines in mind the institution has constituted a Committee against Sexual Harassment.

Vision

To provide a congenial environment of gender equality and against sexual harassment for the well-being of the staff and students.

Mission

• To promote awareness among students about gender justice and harmonious coexistence through campaigns and other awareness
• To constitute a panel/committee for redressal of grievances relating to sexual

Objectives

• To develop guidelines and norms for policies against sexual harassment
• To develop principles and procedures to combat sexual harassment
• To work out details for the implementation of these
• To prepare a detailed plan of action, both short and long-term
• To organize a gender sensitization awareness
• To deal with cases of discrimination and sexual harassment in a time-bound manner, aiming at ensuring support services to the

The cell considers sexual harassment to include unwelcome sexually determined behaviour           whether directly or by implication such as

• A demand or request for sexual
• Sexually coloured
• Showing of
• Any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of a sexual

The following issues also come under the purview of the committee

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