Organisation : Ministry of Women and Child Development
Service Name : SHe-Box Online Complaint Management System
Applicable States/ UTs : All Over India
Home Page : http://shebox.nic.in/
SHe-Box Online Complaint System
The Government of India (GoI) has enacted the Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (the SH Act), 2013 with the objective to create a safe and secure workplace for women free from sexual harassment.
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This Act caters to women working both in organised and unorganised sector and establishes a redressal mechanism for the disposal of their complaints.
This Act is unique in its broad coverage which includes all women irrespective of their work status, whether working in organised or unorganised, public or private sectors, regardless of hierarchy. The domestic workers are also included within its ambit.
It defines “sexual harassment at the workplace” in a comprehensive manner, to cover circumstances of implied or explicit promise or threat to a woman’s employment prospects or creation of hostile work environment or humiliating treatment, which can affect her health or safety.
This Sexual Harassment electronic Box (SHe-Box) is an effort of GoI to provide a single window access to every woman, irrespective of her work status, whether working in organised or unorganised, private or public sector, to facilitate the registration of complaint related to sexual harassment.
Any woman facing sexual harassment at workplace can register their complaint through this portal. Once a complaint is submitted to the ‘SHe-Box’, it will be directly sent to the concerned authority having jurisdiction to take action into the matter.
Register Your Complaint
For registering complaints through the SHe-Box, a valid email id is required. The registration of complaint through SHe-Box is very easy. To register complaint, please click on the tab Register Your Complaint as shown on the screen.
The next screen will ask information about the nature of office where alleged act(s) of sexual harassment took place (Government/Private); choosing the right tab will open a complaint registration form.
After filling all the necessary details, kindly click on the submit tab for its submission. Once the complaint is submitted, a confirmation message, is sent to your email id (mentioned in the complaint form) containing a link through which you can use your email id as userid for the account created on SHe-Box and ,generate a password to view the status of the complaint from time to time.
Empanelled Institutes/Resource Persons
To ensure safety and security of women at all workplaces, WCD is empanelling institutions/organisations willing to conduct awareness raising exercises around the provisions of the SH Act.
In the first round, 29 institutes/organisations were selected and empanelled vide notification dated 16th February 2017 (the list could be viewed in the Resource Section).
Recently, to widen the outreach of the organisations/institutes working in various parts of the country, WCD has invited fresh proposals from the organisations, both public and private, conducting training programs/workshops on SH Act through an advertisement dated 31.08.2017 published both in Hindi and English daily newspapers in a requisite proforma.
Out of the huge number which applied, 112 are selected (both from new and old notification). The list of the same is uploaded in the SHe-Box. These empanelled institute has to submit quarterly reports through SHe-Box of all the training programs/workshop conducted by them under the SH Act.
Further, WCD is planning to advertise for people willing to provide service as Resource Persons for the purposes of SH Act. The form to empanel as Resource Person will be soon uploaded under the ‘Join Us’ tab of the SHe-Box through which those willing to be empanelled may apply.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Who can make a complaint?
i. Aggrieved Women Herself, or
ii. In case of physical incapacity
** Her relative Friend Co worker Officer of NCW or SCW Any person who has knowledge of incident with the written consent of complainant
iii. In case of mental incapacity
** Her relative Friend Special educator Qualified psychiatrist or psychologist Guardian or authority under whose care she is receiving treatment or care Any person who has knowledge of incident jointly with any person mentioned above
iv. In case woman is unable to file complain for any other reason, by any person who has knowledge of incident with her written consent In case of woman’s death by :
** Any person who has knowledge of incident with the written consent of her legal heir Legal Heir
2. Can the complainant ask for some interim relief during the inquiry from ICC?
During the inquiry, at the written request of complainant, ICC can provide following interim reliefs to the complainant :
Transfer the complainant or respondent to any other place Grant leave to the complainant for upto 3 months in addition to her entitled leave Restrain the respondent from reporting on the work performance/ writing confidential report of aggrieved Restrain the respondent from supervising academic activities of aggrieved
3. Can I register both FIR and lodge complaint with Complaints Committee at the same time?
Yes, a woman if she chooses to do so may both file the FIR with the police and complaint with Complaints Committee simultaneously.