The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013 provides protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

As per section 4 of the Act, the Internal Committee (IC) has been constituted at HQ and at Area level in CCL.

The IC consists of a woman employed at a senior level as the Chairperson and a minimum of two employees committed to upholding women’s rights having expertise or knowledge regarding the same. The Act also mandates that there be another member called the external member from an organization or an association dedicated to women’s welfare as NGO representative. Not less than half of the IC Members should be women. The term of the IC members should not exceed 3 years.

The Act gives the IC powers of a Civil Court and thus it acts as a quasi-judicial body empowered to summon or enforce the attendance of any person, order the production of documents, and perform any other matter(s) as may be prescribed.

At present following are the members of IC constituted by Office Order Ref No. GM(P-EE)/CCL/2019/15765-70 dated 03.09.2019 and Office Order Ref No. GM(P)/EE/ICC/2021/1/1939-48 dated 05.02.2021 :