Training session on POSH Act held at Coimbatore

The women’s department of Bharathiyar University and Sangamithra environmental education and development trust organized a one-day training on The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act) at Divyodaya hall in the city on May 29. Sindhu, trustee of the NGO, welcomed the gathering. Vinod Kumar, joint director of the industrial safety and health department inaugurated the training session. While addressing the gathering, he insisted on implementation of the act at all the workplaces. He urged NGO representatives and legal experts to hold regular meetings.
Advocates Sivakumar and Kokila, University professors Mangayarkarasi and Ramya, NGO’s executive director Vijayakumar, and others attended the session.
In the closing ceremony of the training, retired Justice JV Raju cited a Supreme Court order that mandated the implementation of the act at workplaces. “The government also insists that an internal complaint committee should be set up in all the places where more than 10 women work. In addition, it is necessary to raise awareness through seminars, awareness campaigns and other means,” he said.
He said that the government has also appointed officials to monitor and inspect the functioning of the committee. If the committee was not set up, concerned companies’ licenses will be canceled, he added. Tahsildar Jagadeesan also attended the 
training.