Dinanagar, Distt Gurdaspur, Punjab
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CELL
Discrimination
against any person on the grounds of his/her disability or physical limitations
and minority status is a gross violation of universally accepted principles of
equality and human rights and even constitutional obligations. Equal
Opportunity Cell was set up by Assumption College in June 2011, to address the
issues concerning Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Class and
Persons with Disabilities, as per the ‘Guidelines for Scheme of Equal
Opportunity Centre for Colleges XII Plan (2012-2017)’.
The
basic aim of the Equal Opportunity Cell of college is to ensure that students
and faculty belonging to various diverse backgrounds of community, religion,
region, gender or ability are not deprived of their basic opportunities. They
all must have access to all the basic rights to promote inclusivity and
harmony. Through this cell several activities are organized to promote
inclusive policies and practices for all and to look into the grievances to
ensure equality and equal opportunities to the disadvantaged group on campus
through proper implementation of policies, skills, and programs of society. The
cell headed by the Principal, heads of all the department, other staff and
student members chalk out action plans to ensure the functionalities of an
inclusive educational atmosphere in the campus.
Objectives
of the EOC
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To promote the equality among all and eliminate the
discrimination or harassment.
·
To adopt and implement harmonized guidelines and space standards
for a 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 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.
·
To create an atmosphere of equal opportunity through awareness
generation programmes.
·
To expedite legal redressal in matters of violation of equal
opportunity.
NAAC
UGC
NIRF
NPTEL