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Ordinance. XV-D
''Sexual Harassment''
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Short Title and Extent : The present ordinance is based on the Policy against Sexual Harassment by the Delhi University and seeks to maintain and create an academic and work environment free of sexual harassment for students, academic and non-teaching staff of the Delhi University. The ordinance will also apply to outsiders and residents, on the Delhi University campus, to the extent specified herein these rules and procedures. |
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Definitions:
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Students, includes regular students as well as current ex-students of Delhi University. |
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Teaching staff, include any person on the staff of the Delhi University or any colleges or institution affiliated to it, who is appointed to a teaching and/or research post, whether full time, temporary, ad-hoc, part-time, visiting, honorary, or on special duty or deputation and shall also include employees employed on a casual or project basis. |
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Non-Teaching Staff, includes any person on the staff of the Delhi University or of any colleges or institutions affiliated to it, who is not included in the teaching staff. It includes employees who are full-time, temporary, ad-hoc, part-time, visiting, honorary, or on special duty or deputation, and employees employed on a casual or project basis. |
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Member of the University, includes all those included in categories (i)-(iii) above. |
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Resident, includes any person who is a temporary or permanent resident of any of the accommodations or premises allotted to an employee by the University of Delhi or by any of its affiliated colleges or institutions. |
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Outsider, includes any person who is not a member of the University or a resident. It also includes, but is not limited to, any private person offering residential, food and other facilities to students, teaching staff or non-teaching staff of the Delhi University or any college or institution affiliated to Delhi University. |
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Campus, includes all places of work and residence in the Delhi University or any College or institutions affiliated to the Delhi University. It includes all places of instruction, research and administration, as well as hostel, |
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Sexual harassment, includes any unwelcome sexually determined behaviour, whether directly or by implication and includes physical contact and advances, a demand or request for sexual favours, sexually-coloured remarks, showing pornography or any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature. Explanation: .Sexual harassment, shall include, but will not be confined to the following:
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When submission to unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and verbal or physical' conduct of a sexual nature are made, either implicitly or explicitly, a ground for any decision relating to employment, academic performance, extracurricular activities, or entitlement to services or opportunities at the Delhi University. |
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When unwelcome sexual advances, and verbal, non-verbal and/or physical conduct such as loaded comments, remarks or jokes, letters, phone calls or e-mail, gestures, exhibition of pornography, lurid stares, physical contact, stalking, sounds or display of a derogatory nature have the purpose and/or effect of interfering with an individuals performance or of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment. |
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When a person uses, with a sexual purpose, the body or any part of it or any object as an extension of the body in relation to another person without the laters consent or against the persons will, such conduct will amount to sexual assault. |
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When deprecatory comments, conduct or any such behaviour is based on the gender identity/sexual orientation of the person and/or when the classroom or other public forum of the University is used to denigrade /discriminate against a person or create a hostile environment on the basis of a persons gender identity/sexual orientation. |
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Scope of the Ordinance: This Ordinance shall be applicable to all complaints of sexual harassment made:
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by a member of the University against any other member of the University irrespective of whether the harassment is alleged to have taken place within or outside the campus. |
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by a resident against a member of the University or by a member against a resident irrespective of whether the sexual harassment is alleged to have taken place within or outside the campus. |
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by an outsider against a member of the University or by a member of the University against an outsider if the sexual harassment is alleged to have taken place within the campus. |
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by a member of the university, against an outsider if the sexual harassment is alleged to have taken place outside the campus. In such cases the Committee shall recommend that the University college authorities initiate action by making a complaint with the appropriate authority. Further the committee will actively assist and provide available resources to the complainant in pursuing the complaint. |
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ORDINANCE VIII-E: Internal Assessment*
- The scheme for Internal Assessment shall be followed in the regular stream per and shall be applicable to the students admitted from the academic session 2003-04 onwards (i.e. to begin with for the first year students) in both undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses. This scheme of Internal Assessment shall not be applicable to the School of Correspondence Course and Continuing Education, Non-Collegiate Women's Education Board and Non-Formal Education Cell (formerly External Candidates Cell). The specific Ordinances pertaining to schemes of examinations of various courses shall stand amended, mutatis mutandis, to the extent of internal assessment as laid down in this Ordinance.
- Internal Assessment marks shall be shown separately in the Marks Sheet issued by the University and these marks shall be added to the annual/semester examination marks for determining the division of the student.
- 25 % of the maximum marks in each paper in undergraduate courses shall be assigned for Internal Assessment and the remaining 75% marks for the annual/semester University Examination; the time duration and other modalities of the annual/semester Examination with respect to this 75% component shall remain as per existing schemes of examination for various undergraduate courses.
- There shall be 10% weightage assigned to House Examinations to be conducted by each college, for
all subjects in Pass course and B.Sc. (General) and all papers of the main Subject in Honours courses.
- The duration of each paper in the House Examination shall be the same as the duration in the
University Examination. The maximum marks for each paper of the House Examination shall be
100 or the same as the maximum marks in the corresponding University Examination.
- The duration of each paper in the House Examination shall be the same as the duration in the
University Examination. The maximum marks for each paper of the House Examination shall be
100 or the same as the maximum marks in the corresponding University Examination.
- Each student shall be assessed on the basis of written assignments/ tutorials as well as on the basis
of project reports/ term papers/ seminars. There shall be 10% weightage for such written
assignment; and project reports/ presentations/ term papers/ seminars. Each student shall be
given at least one written assignment per paper in each term, subject to a maximum of 12 written
assignments per year for all the papers taken together.
- Where the maximum marks in a paper are less than 100, for example 50 marks, the nature of
written assignments/ tutorial work shall stand adjusted pari passu.
- There shall be 5% weightage for regularity in attending lectures and tutorials, and the credit forregularity in each paper, based on attendance, shall be as follows
- More than 67% but less than 70 % 0 - 1 mark
- 70 % or more but less than 75 % - 2 marks
- 75 % or more but less than 80 % - 3 mark
- 80 % or more but less than 85 % - 4 marks
- 85 % and above - 5 marks
[Medical certificates shall be excluded while calculating credit towards marks to be awarded for regularity, though such certificates shall continue to be taken into account for the purpose of calculating eligibility to appear for examinations as per the existing provisions of Ordinance VI1.29.(a)(ii).] |
- There shall be a Moderation Committee for Internal Assessment in each College, discipline-wise, which shall comprise of the senior most teacher in the department, the teacher-in-charge of the department and the previous teacher-in-charge of the department: provided that if, for any reason, the membership of the Committee falls below 3, the Principal of the college shall nominate suitable members from among the teachers of that department / college to fill the vacancies.
- With the introduction of Internal Assessment, the maximum marks for the University Examination in each paper shall stand reduced accordingly.
- The promotion crieteria shall be as per the existing Ordinances for University Examinations, as applicable to respective courses. In addition, the same criteria shall apply to the total of the University Examination and the Internal Assessment, taken together.
- There shall be a Monitoring Committee for Internal Assessment at the University level consisting of the Dean of Colleges as the Chairperson along with three other Deans one of whom shall be a member of the Executive Council, and the Controller of Examinations as Member-Secretary. The Committee shall monitor the receipt of Internal Assessment marks from various colleges and ensure timely compliance. If a College fails to submit the Internal Assessment marks in time, the University shall not declare the result for such a course in that College. The responsibility for non-declaration of the result of any course in the college in such circumstances will be solely that of the college.
- There shall be a Monitoring Committee for Internal Assessment in every College, which shall be chaired by the Principal of the College and will be made up of the Vice-Principal (and in case there is no Vice-Principal, the Bursar), Secretary Staff Council, and two senior faculty members to be nominated by the Principal. This Committee shall be responsible for the entire process of Internal Assessment in the College, including redressal of grievances, if any.
- In the case of students who repeat one or more paper(s), or all papers of Part I or Part II or Part III, the Internal Assessment marks shall be carried forward.
- In the following special cases, in lieu of Internal Assessment, students shall be awarded marks (for the previous years, papers) in the same proportion as the marks obtained in that paper in the University Examination:
- Students who migrate from other Universities to the University of Delhi in the IInd Year;
- Students who fail in the Part I Examination of Honours Courses and join Pass/General Courses in the IInd year; and
- Students who transfer from 1st year Pass/ General Courses to Honours Courses in the 2nd year.
- Students who migrate from non-formal streams in the University of Delhi (i.e. School of Correspondence Courses and Continuing Education, Non-Collegiate Women's Education Board and Non-Formal Education Cell, formerly External Candidates Cell) to the Regular stream and vice versa, shall carry as such the marks obtained in the preceding year(s).
- Tutorials shall be held regularly for the post-graduate courses of the University by the concerned Department in cooperation with Colleges; and at least 25% marks shall be assigned for Internal Assessment in each paper of the post-graduate courses. The Internal Assessment in the post-; and graduate courses may be based on regularity and attendance; class tests and house examination; and written assignments, projects/term papers/seminars/fieldwork. Post-graduate courses where the weightage of Internal Assessment is 25 per cent or more, Departments may continue with the existing schemes.
- In the case of a student who is selected as a member of the N.C.C. to participate in the annual N.C.C. Camps or is deputed to undertake Civil Defence work and allied duties, or in the case of a student who is enrolled in the National Service Scheme and is deputed to various public assignments by or with the approval of the Head of the institution concerned, or a student who is selected to participate in sports or other activities organized by the Inter-University Board or in national or international fixtures in games and sports approved by the Vice-Chancellor, or a student who is required to represent the University at the Inter-University Youth Festival, or a student who is required to participate in periodical training in the Territorial Army, or a student who is deputed by the College to take part in Inter-College sports, fixtures, debates, seminars, symposia or social work projects, or a student who is required to represent the College concerned in debates and other extra-curricular activities held in other Universities or such other activities approved by the Vice-Chancellor, the following provision will apply:
- A student in the categories listed above, will have to fulfil the requirement of written assignments and projects/term papers/seminars/field-work with the flexibility, however, that he/she may, if necessary, be allowed additional time for submission of written assignments.
- A student in the categories listed above, who is unable to write the House Examination on account of his/her participation in such aforesaid activities, may be assessed by the College through an alternative mode in lieu of the House Examination. This may be done only in exceptional circumstances.
- A student in the categories listed above, will get the benefit of attendance for Internal Assessment for the classes missed as per the existing provisions of Ordinance VII.2. (9)(a)(i).
- The University reserves the tight to review, and if necessary moderate the marks in Internal Assessment in any paper/ papers in any College/Department
- The respective University Moderation Committees in each subject shall moderate, if necessary, the Internal Assessment marks across Colleges.
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