Oct 24, 2018
The Centre has constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to examine the existing legal and institutional frameworks for dealing with matters of sexual harassment of women at the workplace. According to an official release, the GoM will be headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi will be the members of the GoM.

The GoM will recommend action required for effective implementation of the existing provisions, as well as for strengthening the existing legal and institutional frameworks for addressing issues related to sexual harassment at workplace.

Within three months of its constitution, the GoM will examine the existing provisions for the safety of women and recommend further measures.

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act is the key legislation for protecting women against sexual harassment in the workplace and to ensure effective redressal of complaints.

The release said, Women and Child Development Ministry has also launched an Electronic Complaints Box that enables women, irrespective of their work status, to raise their voice against sexual harassment at workplace.

Once a complaint is submitted to the ‘SHe-Box’, it is directly sent to the concerned authority having jurisdiction to take action in the matter.

A mechanism will be put in place to regularly monitor the action taken on the complaints.
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