Equal Opportunity Cell Committee

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CELL (EOC)
COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Sr. No	Full Name	Designation	Position
1.		Incharge Principal	(Chairman)
2.		Senior Faculty	Member – SC/ST Representative
3.		Librarian	Member – Women Representative
4.		Director of Sports	Member – OBC Representative
5.		Assistant Professor	Member – General
6.		Office Bearer	Member – Person with Disability
7.		Office Bearer	Member Scholarship Section
8.		Student – Person with Disability	Member
9.		Associate Professor	Ex-Officio Member

NSCTs Nirmalatai Pingle Law College, Chakan has been established in 1971 imparting legal education in the Rural Pune region of Maharashtra State. The Cell is established with objective of providing growth opportunities to rural community – one as the major disadvantaged compared to urban sections. NNPLC believes in inclusive growth and makes continuous efforts to provide opportunities to all disadvantaged sections of the College. Aspiring to become non-discriminative College in the region and seeks to be the torch bearer of executing the principle of equal opportunity to one and all; irrespective of gender, ability, socio-economic background, caste, religion or language.

The College is committed to the principle of equality in education, welfare for the teaching/non-teaching staff and students and will continue to develop equal opportunity and equity practices and programs compatible with its overall goals and responsibilities. The College is equally committed to providing a safe environment that is free from risks to health and safety. These commitments are consistent with the principles of justice and the pursuit of excellence, and conform to the spirit and intent of equal opportunity, anti-discrimination and occupational health and safety legislation. The College aims to provide employee and students with an educational and employment environment that provides equal opportunity and is free from unlawful discrimination, discriminatory harassment, sexual harassment, bullying and victimization.

The College aspires with the values – includes:

• advocating and upholding fundamental human rights, in particular the principle of equal opportunity, on a sustainable basis for a human civilization and encouraging all employee and students to understand and accept their moral responsibilities as educated, informed, tolerant citizens of their own societies and of the wider international community.
• sustaining a diverse, harmonious scholarly community committed to equity and merit as fundamental principles encouraging and assisting employee and students to realize their full potential;
• maintaining a safe, rewarding, environmentally sustainable learning and working environment for the College

Objectives

The EOC oversees the effective implementation of the principle of equal opportunities to all.
The main objectives of the Cell are mentioned below:

• To ensure equity and equal opportunity to the community at large in the College and bring about social
• To recommend measures to enhance the diversity among the students and employees and at  the same time foster the principle of equal
• To create congenial atmosphere for academic interaction and for the growth of healthy interpersonal relationships among the students coming from various social
• To make efforts to sensitize the academic community regarding the problems associated with  social exclusion as well as aspirations of the marginalized
• To look into the grievances of the discrimination of any kind and suggest amicable
• To disseminate the information related to schemes and programmes, notifications/memoranda, office orders of the Government, or other related        agencies/organizations issued from time to time for the welfare of the socially weaker
• To prepare barrier free formalities/procedures for admission/ registration of students belonging  to the disadvantaged groups of
• To establish coordination with the Government and other agencies/organizations to mobilize  academic and financial resources to provide assistance to students of the     disadvantaged groups.
• To coordinate and work with other statutory bodies of the College for the benefit of disadvantaged
• To bring awareness about problems faced by disadvantaged groups and methods of

Implementation or Operational aspects

The College will take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying or victimization as far as possible. Employee and students bound by this policy must comply with all rules and regulations envisaged in the policy.

In particular, employee and students must not engage in behaviour that constitutes bullying/victimisation/discrimination towards other employee or students, including physical, visual, verbal and non-verbal behaviour. Failure to do so may lead to the individual being held legally responsible and serious penalties apply to those who breach the policy.

The committee reviews the effective implementation of the principle of equal opportunities to all; irrespective of gender, ability, socio-economic background, caste, religion or language.

The Committee should meet at least once in six months and actions taken on decisions are to be reviewed.

• oversee/monitor Seminars/ symposia/ workshops/ conferences/ exhibitions, etc. from time- to-time on issues of contemporary significance for empowering, educationally and culturally, students belonging to the marginalized
• be responsible for the effective functioning of EOC dealing with the problems of different socially disadvantaged
• convene the meeting of all the members of the committee from time to time as required and meeting with coordinators of other Committees/Programmes dealing with social issues such as Cell for Prevention of Sexual Harassment,       National Service Schemes (NSS) to have alignment of their activities with EOC.

Support to disadvantaged groups

 EOC is expected to facilitate for providing following facilities to aforesaid groups:

• Waiver of fees as per University rules and Government rules
• Computer Lab equipped with best assistive software and devices like Screen Reading Software, Screen Magnification Software, OCR Software Braille Display and Voice Recognition
• Assistive Devices for Persons with Disabilities
• Examination writing policy for the conduct of free, fair and hassle free
• DVDs and Books on Disability issues
• Orientation Workshops for Persons with Disabilities
• Blind Sticks for Visually Impaired Students
• Provision of Medical Health check-up
• Placements
• Provision of special ramps, disabled-friendly toilets and parking space reserved for the persons with disabilities persons
• Counseling Sessions

Expectations

To ensure and promote equal opportunity to the disadvantaged groups, EOC is expected to carry out  following activities:

• Sensitization and awareness programmes on a wide array of subjects ranging from Gender Issues, Human Rights, and Inclusion of Marginalized Groups to
• Workshop on Women Empowerment for students and employee of College. Health awareness and medical camps for students, employee of the College.
• Workshops on Legal Education and Equality, Awareness about Legal reddressal and conflict
• Special Lecture series by Eminent Personalities and Academicians on subjects like Gender issues, Equality and Discrimination, Differently abled and their problems,
• Socio-Cultural interactive activities for the disadvantaged
• Computer literacy for the students of College as well as the underprivileged and the unemployed youth and children of the
• Enhancing life skills in students and employee of University
• Basic literacy and education through student volunteers for the poor children of the locality under “Joy of Giving”