Sexual harassment should be stopped anyway at workplaces, be it organised or unorganised or private or Government sectors, viewed speakers at a progamme held at the BJB College here on Sunday.
The BJB College’s Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) Department along with the Bhubaneswar Young Urban Women Forum, CCWD and Action Aid held an orientation programme on The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.
College Principal Dr Prasanna Kumar Mohanty attending as chief guest said that everyone should be made aware about the law by which the atrocities against women would decrease and would lead to increase the work efficiency of women.
It would also lead country’s productivity power and would the decrease poverty, he added. Action Aid members Ghasiram Panda, Puspashree Debi, CCWD secretary Sadasiv Swain, BJB College Journalism and Mass Communication Department Head Dr Nalini Patra and Rajlaxmi Das also spoke on the occasion.
Later a proposal was passed in presence of dignitaries in which a team was formed including the students of the department. The team would go to different government and private offices in the city and review that whether the act is implemented or not.