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Building a Respectful and Inclusive Workplace: Promoting Gender Equality and Preventing Sexual Harassment

Building a Respectful and Inclusive Workplace: Promoting Gender Equality and Preventing Sexual Harassment

  • Start Date : June 15,2024
  • End Date : June 22,2024
  • Venue : SMU
  • Category : Event

The Internal committee(IC) and Gender Equality Committee of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences (SMIMS), jointly organized an awareness and sensitization program on Gender Equality and Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace. The Theme of the program was ‘Building a Respectful and Inclusive Workplace: Promoting Gender Equality and Preventing Sexual Harassment’.

  • Start Date : June 15,2024
  • End Date : June 22,2024
  • Venue : SMU
  • Category : Event

The Internal committee(IC) and Gender Equality Committee of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences (SMIMS), jointly organized an awareness and sensitization program on Gender Equality and Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace. The Theme of the program was ‘Building a Respectful and Inclusive Workplace: Promoting Gender Equality and Preventing Sexual Harassment’.

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The Internal committee(IC) and Gender Equality Committee of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences (SMIMS), jointly organized an awareness and sensitization program on Gender Equality and Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace. The Theme of the program was ‘Building a Respectful and Inclusive Workplace: Promoting Gender Equality and Preventing Sexual Harassment’. The program was supported by SMU and SMIMS.

 

In a three day program held on 15th, 20th and 22nd June 2024 at SMIMS was attended by more than 700 students and 250 faculties of all the units of Sikkim Manipal University (Tadong Campus) viz. SMIMS/CRH, SMCON, SMCPT, Medical Biotechnology, Allied Health Courses and Faculties of Humanities Social Sciences and Liberal Arts (FHSSLA).

 

Several students have successfully performed a series of activities like digital badge/ poster designing competition on gender equality, and Prevention of Sexual Harassment(POSH) at workplace, Debate competition  on the topic: Is cultural relativism a valid excuse for Gender Inequality?, role play(Skit) and video submission based on the theme.

 

Special lectures were organized to sensitize the participants on gender equality and equity, POSH at workplace (prevention, prohibition and redressal) Act, 2013. SMU Controller of Examination, Dr. Keerthilatha M Pai,  Dr. Geeta Soohinda, Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Chairperson, IC, CRH and Mrs. Zola Megi, Sr. Advocate, High Court, Govt. of Sikkim were the resource persons.

 

SMU Vice Chancellor, AVM Dr. Dilip Chandra Agarwal,VSM(Retd), Registrar Dr. Karma Sonam Sherpa, SMIMS, Dean Prof. (Dr.) Muralidhar V Pai, SMU Director, Directorate of Research Prof. Kalpana Sharma, SMIMS, members of Gender Equality/Champions committee, SMIMS, IC, internal and external members, faculties and students were present on the occasion.

 

The program was coordinated by Dr. Chandrakala Sharma, Professor, dept of Pharmacology and Chairperson, IC, SMIMS and gender champions committee, SMIMS.

 

The three day program ended with the valedictory ceremony on 22 June 2024.