SHe-Box Portal
Source: Indian Express
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Overview
- News in Brief
- About SHe-Box Portal
Why in the News?
The Ministry of Women and Child Development recently launched the SHe-Box portal.
News in Brief
- The government has launched the SHe-Box portal.
- The SHe-Box portal represents a significant step forward in ensuring safer workplaces and providing aggrieved women with a reliable mechanism for addressing their grievances.
About SHe-Box Portal
- It is an online system designed to help in better implementation of various provisions of ‘The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013’ (SH Act).
- It will provide a publicly available centralised repository of information related to Internal Committees (ICs) and Local Committees (LCs) constituted at various workplaces, across the country.
- It is a centralized system aimed at addressing and monitoring workplace sexual harassment complaints.
- Developed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
- SHe-Box portal serves as a public repository of information regarding Internal Committees (ICs) and Local Committees (LCs) formed in workplaces across the country, both in the government and private sectors.
- It is also an integrated complaint registration and monitoring system.
- Portal requires each workplace to designate a nodal officer responsible for regularly updating data to enable real-time monitoring of complaints.
- The portal features a monitoring dashboard for nodal officers at central, state, and district levels, allowing them to track the number of cases filed, resolved, and pending. Complainants can also track the status of their complaints.
- Additionally, the portal enables the generation of detailed reports for supervisory authorities across ministries, departments, states, Union Territories, private sectors, and districts to ensure timely resolution of cases.
- All complaints filed through the SHe-Box portal are directed to the relevant IC or LC.
- The details and nature of the complaints remain confidential, and accessible only to the Chairperson of the IC or LC.
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