The University Grants Commission has notified India’s first gender-neutral Regulations relating to Sexual harassment. New UGC regulations on Sexual harassment prevention and prohibition which was notified last month, has made sexual harassment a gender neutral affair and now male students and students of the third gender in universities can also lodge complaints against sexual harassment faced by them.
The UGC (Prevention, prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment of women employees and students in higher educational institutions) notified recently says that it is the responsibility of Higher Educational Institutions to ‘act decisively against all gender based violence perpetrated against employees and students of all sexes recognising that primarily women employees and students and some male students and students of the third gender are vulnerable to many forms of sexual harassment and humiliation and exploitation’
The UGC (Prevention, prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment of women employees and students in higher educational institutions) notified recently says that it is the responsibility of Higher Educational Institutions to ‘act decisively against all gender based violence perpetrated against employees and students of all sexes recognising that primarily women employees and students and some male students and students of the third gender are vulnerable to many forms of sexual harassment and humiliation and exploitation’
