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GOVERNMENT OF SIKKIM HOME DEPARTMENT GANGTOK
No. 58/HOME/2001 Dated: 31.12.2001 NOTIFICATIONS In pursuance of the Hon’bl Supreme Court Order dated 9th July, 1997 in Writ Petition/No.824 of 1988 in the matter of Gaurav Jain Vs. Union of India & Ors. The State Government hereby constitutes a Coordination Committee consisting of the following members:- 1. Chief Secretary - Chairman 2. Director General of Police - Vice-Chairman 3. Additional Secretary Home Department - Member 4. Additional Secretary, - Member Women & Child Development Division 5. President, Association of Social - Member Health in India, Sikkim Branch 6. President, Sikkim Women’s Forum - Member 7. Secretary, Social Welfare Department - Convener the Committee will make an in-depth study of the problems of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of women and children, evolve suitable schemes for their rescue and rehabilitation, review the situation and progress made in implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of women and children and furnish information in the prescribed formats on a quarterly basis to the Government of India. By Order and in the name of the Governor. S.W. TENZING CHIEF-SECRETARY, 9F.NO.500(27)97-98/WCW).
GOVERNMENT OF SIKKIM DEPARTMENT OF PERSONAL, ADM.,REFORMS & TRG, GANGTOK No. 38/GEN/DOP Dated: 19/10/2000 NOTIFICATION In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution of India, the Governor hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Sikkim Government Servants’ Conduct Rules, 1981, namely:- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Sikkim Government Servant’s Conduct (Amendment) Rules 2000; (2) They shall come into force at once. 2. In the Sikkim Government Servant’s Conduct Rules, 1981, after rule 23, the following shall be inserted as rule 24, namely:- “24. Prohibition of sexual harassment of working women. (i) No Government servant shall indulge in any act of sexual harassment of any women at her work place. (ii) Every Government servant who is in-charge of a work place shall take appropriate steps to prevent sexual harassment to any women at such work place. EXPLANATION- For the purpose of this rule “sexual harassment” includes such unwelcome sexually determined behaviors, whether directly or otherwise, as- (a) Physical contact and advances (b) demand or request for sexual favours; (c) sexually coloured remarks; (d) showing any pornography, or (e) any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature. By Order and in the name of the Governor. (iii) Breach of above sub-rule(i) and (ii) shall amount to misconduct as rules 25,26 and 27 respectively. 3. Existing rules 24,25 and 26 shall be renumbered as rules 25,26 and 27 respectively. By Order and in the name of Governor. R.S.Basnet, Secretary to the Govt. of Sikkim, Deptt. Of Personal, Adm. Ref. & Trg. |
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