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Regulations pertaining to Student’s Grievance Redressal, Promotion of Equity, Anti-Ragging Measures, and
Prevention of Sexual Harassment etc.:

University Grants Commission
University Grants Commission (Prevention, prohibition and redressal of

sexual harassment of women employees and students in higher educational
institutions) Regulations, 2015.

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 2nd May, 2016
No. F. 91-1/2013(TFGS).- In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (g) of sub-section (1)
of section 26 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 ( 3 of 1956), read with sub-section
(1) of Section 20 of the said Act, the University Grants Commission hereby makes the following
regulations, namely:-
1. Short title, application and commencement.-

(1) These regulations may be called the University Grants Commission (Prevention,
prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment of women employees and students in
higher educational institutions) Regulations, 2015.
(2) They shall apply to all higher educational institutions in India.
(3) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Definitions.- In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “aggrieved woman” means in relation to work place, a woman of any age whether
employed or not, who alleges to have been subjected to any act of sexual harassment
by the respondent;
(b) ‘Act’ means the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition
and Redressal) Act, 2013 (14 of 2013);
(c) “campus” means the location or the land on which a Higher Educational Institution and
its related institutional facilities like libraries, laboratories, lecture halls, residences,
halls, toilets, student centres, hostels, dining halls, stadiums, parking areas, parks-
like settings and other amenities like health centres, canteens, Bank counters, etc., are
situated and also includes extended campus and covers within its scope places visited as
a student of the HEI including transportation provided for the purpose of commuting to
and from the institution, the locations outside the institution on field trips, internships,
study tours, excursions, short-term placements, places used for camps, cultural festivals,
sports meets and such other activities where a person is participating in the capacity of
an employee or a student of the HEI;
(d) Commission” means the University Grants Commission established under section 4 of
the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956);

(e) “covered individuals” are persons who have engaged in protected activity such as filing
a sexual harassment charge, or who are closely associated with an individual who has
engaged in protected activity and such person can be an employee or a fellow student
or guardian of the offended person;
(f) “employee” means a person as defined in the Act and also includes, for the purposes of
these Regulations trainee, apprentice (or called by any other name), interns, volunteers,
teacher assistants, research assistants, whether employed or not, including those
involved in field studies, projects, short-visits and camps;

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