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Sudha Rani Relangi, Information Commissioner astatine the Central Information Commission, underscored the value of ineligible consciousness successful addressing workplace harassment astatine a South Regional Law Review Consultation connected the implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women astatine Workplace Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act, 2013, held astatine Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Sabbavaram, connected Tuesday.
The consultation, organised successful collaboration with the National Commission for Women, was conducted successful hybrid mode astatine the university’s seminar hall. It brought unneurotic members of the Commission, advocates from the Visakhapatnam Bar, and academicians from assorted National Law Universities.
Presiding implicit the programme, Vice-Chancellor D. Surya Prakasa Rao traced the improvement of women’s rights and the circumstances that led to the enactment of the POSH Act.
In her address, Ms. Relangi said consciousness of the instrumentality enables individuals to forestall and efficaciously respond to workplace harassment. She referred to the Act’s grounding successful planetary frameworks specified arsenic the Convention connected the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its improvement wrong the Indian ineligible system.
Highlighting the lived realities of harassment, she noted that inappropriate remarks and behaviour successful nonrecreational spaces undermine dignity and intelligence well-being. The Act, she said, rests connected 3 principles, prevention, prohibition and redressal, portion besides providing safeguards against misuse done owed process.
The consultation featured method sessions connected substantive provisions, organization mechanisms, procedural safeguards, implementation challenges and emerging issues nether the Act. Legal experts and module members from Andhra University, GITAM and DSNLU participated.
Ms. Relangi called for a broader and modern knowing of harassment, advocated information of gender-neutral provisions, and stressed the request for zero tolerance towards specified misconduct.
Among those contiguous were Prof. V. Rajya Lakshmi, Prof. R. Anitha Rao, Prof. N. Chandrakala and Dr. Rifath Khan. Programme coordinators Bhagyalakashmi, D. Sherley Hepsiba and students besides attended.
