Committee Against Sexual Harassment (CASH)

Internal Complaints Committee of Ashoka University

Ashoka University has framed and implemented the Ashoka University Policy against Sexual Harassment Rules in order to prevent and prohibit all forms of sexual harassment in the university campus and other connected places.

Meanwhile, University Grants Commission has issued the University Grants Commission (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal of Sexual Harassment of all sexes, men women & transgenders and Students in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2015 which has come into force with effect from May 2, 2016. (Appendix). Under the above Regulations all Higher Educational Institutions including Ashoka University have to adopt and modify their existing rules in consonance with the above Regulations.

Therefore, in compliance with the above Regulations, Ashoka University has framed the Ashoka University (Prevention, prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment of employees and students) Rules, 2016.

Email: cash@ashoka.edu.in

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Members of CASH

1. Lipika Dey (Faculty Member) [Chair]
2. Pallavi Raghavan (Faculty Member) [Co-chair]
3. Rachel Kathleen Harbin (Faculty Member)
4. Vidya Avasare (Faculty Member)
5. Mani Lamba (Staff Member)
6. Anubhav Sharma (Staff Member)
7. Anuradha Gandhi (External Member)
8. Ayesha Khan (Student Representative from Undergraduate Constituency [UG Second and Third Years])
9. Taif Altaf (Student from YIF Constituency)
10. Student from Postgraduate Constituency [MA/MSc/PhD]- Vacant

Members of CASH Support

1. Professor Bittu, bittu@ashoka.edu.in (Associate Professor of Biology and Psychology)
2. Dr. Arvinder Singh, arvinder.singh@ashoka.edu.in (Director, Ashoka Centre for Well-Being)
3. Tatyana Kostochka, tatyana.kostochka@ashoka.edu.in (Assistant Professor of Philosophy)