Student Counsellor Committee

Composition

Mechanism

Anti-Discrimination Cell

The Cell shall eliminate discrimination against or harassment of any individual in all forms by prohibiting it and by providing preventive and protective measures to facilitate its eradication and punishments for those who indulge in any form of discrimination or harassment.

Constitution

Objectives of the Anti-Discrimination Cell

Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal’s Institute of Pharmacy, Dhule has constituted the Anti-Discrimination Cell in compliance to the UGC regulations (Promotion of Equity in Higher Educational Institutions), with the following members:

1. This cell will look after the related matters (if any) of depriving a student / staff or group of students on the basis of caste, creed, language, ethnicity, gender, different ability.
2. This cell always try to uphold the dignity of the institution by addressing the concerns (if any) brought into the notice related to equality in offering or receiving education inside the campus.
3. This cell ensures conducive environment for academic growth of the people belonging to the university.
4. This cell protects the rights of individuals without any prejudice to their appearance or lifestyle in the process of learning inside the campus.
5. The Cell shall eliminate discrimination against or harassment of any individual in all forms by prohibiting it and by providing preventive and protective measures to facilitate its eradication and punishments for those who indulge in any form of discrimination or harassment.

Role and Responsibilities:

• To receive complaints if any, from the lady staff and lady students who have been subject to sexual harassment
• To keep all records intact and in proper order of the complaints received
• To enquire into such complaints and establish the facts
• To keep an elaborate process document of each and in such case describing the methods adopted and the settlement research in solving the problem.

Mechanism:

Committee For SC / ST

Establishment of Committee for SC/ ST (As per the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, No. 33 OF 1989, dated11.09.1989).

Composition

Duties/Responsibilities/ Activities of the committee.

• To address to the issues related to the students belong to SC & ST category.

Objectives

• Resolve the grievances/problems of students of SC & ST category.
• Awareness of students regarding government policies, various scheme run by the State & Central Government.
• To avoid any caste discrepancies in the campus

Functions

• To follow & implement policies, various scheme run by the State & Central Government to avail benefit for the students of respective categories.
• To create peaceful & healthy environment for students belong to various categories.

Mechanism:

Gender Sensitization Cell

Gender Sensitization Cell has been instructed to spread the message of Gender Equality in order to eliminate gender bias and gender insensitivity through Seminars, Poster Display, organizing exhibitions, etc.

The Cell has also been mainly entrusted with taking up cases of harassment and atrocities on female teachers, employees and girl students, enquire and take appropriate action against the culprits.

The institution is well prepared to handle and respond to gender sensitive issues and provide an environment where men and women can work together with a sense of personal security and dignity. For this purpose, the institute has setup gender sensitization cell in Jan 2018. The cell engrosses the awareness about gender issues and working towards and creating an enabling environment of gender justice.

Constitution of Gender Sensitization Cell

Main objective of Gender Sensitization cell is:

• To make the young boys and girls gender sensitive and create positive values that supports the girls and their rights.
• To provide overall guidance to the peer group in integrating/mainstreaming gender in all activities of the Institution in the form of focused group discussions, debates, poster making competitions etc.
• To provide an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to understand the social and cultural constructions of gender that shapes the experiences of women and men in society.
• To generate the awareness in regard to equality in law, social system and democratic activities.

Faculty member deputed from each department designated as nodal teachers in this cell will identify student Gender Champions from their department.

Role and Responsibilities:

• To examine all grievance letters received from the women staff / students regarding the sexual harassment.
• To examine and investigate on each complaint received from the women staff / students by collecting the required information / data from connected people.

Mechanism:

Internal Complaint Committee

Establishment of Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) (As per Section 4 All India Councilfor Technical Education (Gender Sensitization, Prevention and Prohibition of SexualHarassment of Women Employees and Students and Redressal of Grievances in TechnicalInstitutions) Regulations, 2016 vide No. F.AICTE/WH/2016/01dated 10th June, 2016 *

Composition

Duties/Responsibilities/ Activities of the committee.

Ombudsman & Grievance Redressal Committee

In order to ensure transparency by Technical Institutions imparting technical education, in admissions and with Paraamount Objectives of preventing unfair practices and to provide a mechanism to students for redressal of their grievances, AICTE has notified regulation for establishment of mechanism for Grievances Redressal Committee and OMBUDSMAN for all the AICTE approved technical Institution vide No. 37-3/Legal/2012 dated 25.05.2012.

Composition of Committee

Grievance may be due to following reasons

• Admission process
• Academic
• Non-Academic
• Grievance related to charging of fees
• Grievance regarding conducting of Examinations
• Harassment by colleague students or the teachers etc.

Role and Responsibilities:

• To look into the complaints lodged by any student, and judge its merit.
• To look into matters of harassment.

The committee members are selected form the teaching staff members and with the regular meeting held the following procedure is framed.

• The committee will monitor admission process, regular academic practices and finance related issues.
• The Student will report in written letter about their Grievance to any of the committee members.
• Then the member who have been informed about the problem will report to all the other members of the committee.
• A meeting will be held with all the committee members to discuss over the issue reported.

Mechanism:

Prevention of Sexual Harrassement

The Ministry of Law & Justice has passed the Act on 22nd April 2013. The Rules were passed on 9th December 2013.

The Act in its Section 2n, defines sexual harassment. Sexual harassment includes anyone or more of the following unwelcome acts or behaviour (whether directly or byimplication), namely

• Physical contact and advances, or
• A demand or request for sexual favours, or
• Making sexually coloured remarks, or
• Showing pornography, or
• Any other unwelcome physical, verbal, non verbal conduct of sexual nature

Section 3 (2) of the Act further elaborates that if any of the following circumstancesoccurs or is present in relation to or connected with any act or behavior of sexualharassment among other circumstances, it may amount to sexual harassment-

• Implied or explicit promise of preferential treatment in her employment, or
• Implied or explicit threat of detrimental treatment in her employment, or
• Implied or explicit threat about her present or future employment status, or
• Interference with her work or creating an intimidating or offensive or hostile work environment for her, or
• Humiliating treatment likely to affect her health or safety.

Composition

Prevention of sexual harassment of women at institute committee

Duties/Responsibilities/ Activities of the committee

• To address to the issues related to the sexual harassment and victimization of students & employee.
• Discussion on policy making/ Framing.

Girl’s students and Women are working on the various positions in the college. They need to work with dignity in safe and protected environment. Women Grievance cell of SVKM’s Institute of Pharmacy is formulated and working for the same.

Objectives

• Safe and protected environment to Girls students and Female faculty-members
• Resolve the grievances/problems of Girls students and Female faculty-members
• Awareness of Girls students and Female faculty-members by conducting seminars, workshops etc.
• Counselling of girl students

Functions

• To protect girl-students against any type of harassment (i.e. sexual, psychological) and take suitable actions as stated below
• To submit the inquiry committee report to chairperson if required.
• To organize workshops, seminars and guest-lectures by experts in various fields (Health professionals, lawyers, social activists etc.) related to women’s.

The committee members are selected form the teaching/non-teaching staff members and with the regular meeting held the following procedure is framed.

• The Victim will report in written letter about their Grievance to any of the committee members.
• Then the member who have been informed about the problem will report to all the other members of the committee.
• A meeting will be held with all the committee members to discuss over the issue reported.
• Then the victim and the suspect will be called by the committee members and the matter will be herd in detail form both the ends separately.
• Then again a meeting will be held to discuss the issues with the point of view of both the person to take a proper action.
• Members will decide that the suspect or the victim needs counselling or not.
• Whether the suspect is really found guilty or not, and is there any scope of improvement.
• Than if found guilty, a written letter will be taken from the person who is proved guilty saying that what he have committed.
• Family members of the person found guilty will be called to discuss their issues.
• A view of the student will be taken in presence of his/her family members before giving any punishment.
• The issues and the name of the persons (Victim or Suspect) will not be revealed by the committee members to any other person.

Mechanism