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SHe-Box Portal

Context

The government launched a centralised platform ‘SHe-Box portal’, designed to make workplaces safer for women by addressing and managing complaints of sexual harassment.

About SHe-Box Portal

  • The SHe-Box portal is an online platform to file complaints related to sexual harassment at the workplace. 
  • Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD)
  • The portal would function as a centralised repository for information related to internal committees and local committees across the country, covering both the government and private sectors.
  • The portal will allow women to file complaints, track their status, and ensure that the grievances are processed in a timely manner.
  • It also features a designated nodal officer to enable real-time monitoring of complaints, thereby providing a streamlined and assured redressal process.
  • It also aligns with the government's broader vision of Viksit Bharat by 2047, with a strong emphasis on women-led development

Fact Box: About SHe-Box

  • Launched in: 2018
  • Sexual Harassment electronic Box (SHe-Box) aims 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.
  • To enforce She-box effectively, MWCD intimated under Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (the SH Act), 2013. 
    • The act provides a safety measure to all women registering at the portal by securing all the information such as address, names of witnesses, inquiry proceedings or any action taken by the employer.
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