{"id":260004,"date":"2025-03-07T02:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=260004"},"modified":"2025-03-07T02:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:44:02","slug":"rgu-conducts-online-talk-on-posh-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/rgu-conducts-online-talk-on-posh-act\/","title":{"rendered":"RGU conducts online talk on PoSH Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, 6 Mar:<\/strong> As part of the International Women&#8217;s Day (IWD) celebration, the Rajiv Gandhi University IWD Celebration Committee, with support from the university&#8217;s Centre for Distance and Online Education, conducted an online talk on &#8216;Understanding the Protection of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) Act, 2013&#8217; on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keynote speaker of the talk and founder and managing partner of AD-riot Links, Leeza Dutta Singh, highlighted the historical background of the PoSH Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leeza also informed about the University Grants Commission (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal of Sexual Harassment of Women Employees and Students in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2015 (UGC Regulations).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Study and Research Centre Director Prof Elizabeth Hangsing said that &#8220;when we have the law and its institution, everyone must take advantage of laws to protect their right whenever they feel unprotected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajiv Gandhi University Teachers&#8217; Association president Prof Sarah Hilaly also spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 100 participants joined the online talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, 6 Mar: As part of the International Women&#8217;s Day (IWD) celebration, the Rajiv Gandhi University IWD Celebration Committee, with support from the university&#8217;s Centre for Distance and Online Education, conducted an online talk on &#8216;Understanding the Protection of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) Act, 2013&#8217; on Thursday. Keynote speaker of the talk and founder and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-260004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}