Hindustan
Times: Gurgaon: Sunday, 20 September 2015.
The Haryana
State Information Commission (HSIC) has directed the Gurgaon administration to
list all complaints of sexual harassment at the workplace on the district
website. The move is aimed at checking sexual harassment at workplace.
The
commission, while hearing an RTI filed by Gurgaon-based activist Harinder
Dhingra, said that details of complaints, either resolved or unresolved and
those recommended to the district committee under Section 4(1) Sexual
Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act,
2013 should be posted on the websites of the institutions as well as government
website.
As per the
Act, every organisation, which has more than five women working, has to form an
internal complaint committee where complaints related to harassment can be
registered.
If these
complaints are not resolved internally than it is recommended to the district
level committee headed by the additional deputy commissioner. State information
commissioner Shiv Raman Gaur also ordered that the details of the complaints
and the committees formed should also be shared on the websites of the
institutions with women employees.
“I had sought
information from the DC in Gurgaon about the formation of the inquiry
committees in Gurgaon as mandated by law at workplaces. These workplaces
included hospitals, hotels, factories, banks, and malls, which have women employed
at the workplace,” says Dhingra.
Although the
DC directed the ADC office to furnish details, nothing changed and so the RTI
activist had to file an appeal with the state information commission.
Consequently,
the state information commission directed the ADCs across Haryana to collect
infor mation under Section 20 & Section 20( 1) of Sexual Harassment of
Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and as
stipulated under Section 2(f) of RTI Act 2005 put the same on its website.
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