Equal Opportunity Cell
The Equal Opportunity Cell ensures to create an educational environment that is open to all students and faculty without discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, national origin/ancestry, religion, sex or gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability. The main objective of the Equal Opportunity Cell is to help and empower the persons with disabilities, students to participate fully in the academic, intellectual, social and cultural life of college on an equal basis.
Objectives of Equal opportunity Cell:
- Eliminate the discrimination or harassment.
- Â Promote the equality among all.
- Â To adopt and implement harmonized guidelines and space standards for barrier free built environment for all.
- To identify the issues in the campus and to provide an enabling and non-discriminative environment for all.
- To promote inclusive policies and practices for all on the campus.
- To look into the grievances and ensure equality and equal opportunities to the disadvantaged group on campus through proper implementation of policies, skills, and programs of society.
- Â To disseminate the information related to schemes, programs, notifications/memoranda, office orders of the Govt., related to welfare of target groups from time to time.
- To promote diversity and inclusive practices on campus and provide the underprivileged groups with adequate opportunities.
- Safeguard the interest of students without any prejudice to their caste, creed, religion, language, ethnicity, gender and disability.
- Â To create an atmosphere of equal Opportunity through awareness generation programmes.
- Â To provide auxiliary support towards skill development and enhancing employability of students.
To expedite legal redressal in matters of violation of equal opportunity.
The present committee has been constituted with the following members:
- Dr. Anju Sosan George (Co-ordinator) (English)
- Dr. Sumi Mary Thomas (History)
- Mrs. Betty Elsa Jacob (English)
- Ms. Jisha Mary Mathew (Commerce)
- Mr. Albert Thomas (B.Voc)
- Mr. Savad K.M. (Commerce (SF))