College Internal Complaints Committee

The undersigned members to prevent gender discrimination and inappropriate sexual conduct in the Institute

Sl. No.	Role	Designation	Name
1	Coordinator	Associate Professor, EC	Prof. Sujani. G
2	External member	Sub-Inspector of police Rural police station, Kolar	Mrs. Sunitha Devi. M Ph:08152222616 9448962525
2	Member	Senior Faculty	Prof. Banuprakash (HOD, PE)
3		Senior Faculty	Prof. Sreevidya N (AP, ME) Prof. Manjula SS (AP, CS) Prof. Krithika. K (AP, CS) Prof. Pavithra H V (AP, PE)
		Student representatives	Harshala. H.S, V Sem, EC
		Non-teaching staff	Mrs. Sowmya R (Office)
Frequency of the meeting		Once in a year, and as and when required

Functions and responsibilities

1. To facilitate a safe environment that is free of sexual harassment and gender bias.
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 harassment
3. Spread awareness about Gender equity among all the stakeholders through appropriate programs.
4. Work towards maintaining the dignity and comfort of all-female stakeholders in the campus.

Objective

To maintaining a professional learning and working environment for students, employees, and guests. To prevent gender discrimination and inappropriate sexual conduct through promoting gender sensitivity and justice amongst all.

Standard Operating Procedure for Internal Complaints Cell

1. Complaint and number of Complaints redressed will be prepared and furnished by the respective Employer, should be reported in their annual report.
2. Sensitization programs / workshops would be organized; by seeking permission and send the same to the IQAC for approval.
3. Meetings would be convened for all employees as well as special meetings to be conducted with only the women employees by the committee on a regular basis.
4. Maintain records of all sexual harassment cases and findings.
5. If the committee decides not to conduct an enquiry into a complaint, it shall record the reasons for the same in the minutes of the Committee meeting. The Committee shall make the same available to the complainant in writing.
6. The Committee shall have the right to summon, as many times as required, the defendant, complainant and/or any witnesses for the purpose of supplementary testimony and/or clarifications.
7. The defendant, the complainant, and witnesses shall be intimated at least seventy-two hours in advance in writing of the date, time and venue of the enquiry proceedings. The responsibility of communicating with the witnesses lies with the complainant/defendant regarding the date, time and venue of the meeting.
8. At the end of the academic year the annual report and action taken report are to be submitted to IQAC.

Minutes of meeting Procedure

1. All meetings shall be convened by the chairperson/convener with prior notice to all committee members.
2. Minutes of meeting will be noted down by the convener and same will be discussed with committee members.
3. It is compulsory for the members to attend the meeting.
4. Maintenance of necessary records of the committee in a file: Notice/Photos/Statistical data /Minutes of meeting/Prepare brief report on events.
5. Meeting: The Committee should meet at least once in every semester.
6. Quorum:The quorum for the meeting shall be two-thirds of the total number of members.
7. Record Keeping: The agenda, minutes of meeting and Action Taken Reports are to be documented with official signatures and maintained in a register and electronically in a retrievable format (scanned copy).
8. Reporting:A copy of the same will be submitted to the IQAC of the college for preparation of various reports of IQAC.