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The Odisha government directed all government and private universities and colleges in the state to establish internal panels to address complaints of sexual harassment..
The direction has come in the backdrop of an alleged sexual harassment of a woman at government-run Utkal University, a premier institute in Odisha...
In a letter to all the heads of public and private universities and colleges of the state, the state Higher Education Department on Monday, directed them to form internal complaint committees...
The PoSH Act mandates each workplace to set up an internal complaint committee to efficiently tackle internal complaints related to sexual harassment issues...
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