Gender Harassment Prevention Committee

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

Penalties:

1. Any member of the AIMS & AHRC & its Constituents, nonteaching staff, student, service provider, and resident found guilty of sexual harassment shall be liable for disciplinary action.
2. The penalties listed below are indicative, and shall not constrain the AIMS & AHRC & its constituents’ authorities from considering others, in accordance with the rules governing the conduct of all members of the AIMS & AHRC.
3.  

• Warning
• Written apology
• Bond of good behavior
• Gender sensitization
• Counseling
• Adverse remarks in the Confidential Report
• Debarring from supervisory duties
• Denial of membership of statutory bodies
• Denial of re-employment
• Stopping of increments/promotion
• Reverting, demotion
• Transfer
• Dismissal
• Withdrawal of residential facilities and prohibition from entry on the campus etc.
• Any other relevant mechanism.

• Warning
• Written apology
• Bond of good behavior
• Gender sensitization
• Counseling
• Debarring entry into a hostel/ campus
• Withholding results
• Debarring from exams
• Debarring from contesting elections
• Debarring from holding posts
• Expulsion
• Denial of admission
• Declaring the harasser as “persona non grata” for a stipulated period of time
• Any other relevant mechanism.
• (NOTE: The reasons for the action have to be provided in writing. Action will be taken against person(s) who try to pressurize the complainant in any way).