Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities

SEDGs Cell shall ensure the protection of the constitutionatty guaranteed rights, dignity, safety, and security of all individuats belonging to the SEDGs and also ensure them equalizing access and opportunities to pursue higher education with the help of the existing statutory bodies

Functions of Equal Opportunity Cell

• To co-ordinate with other existing cells and statutory enable implementation of the existing schemes and fellowships of the Govt. of lndia and respective States'.
• To ensure the implementation of orientation and bridge courses, earn-while-tearn schemes, and outreach programmes.
• To provide socio-economic, academic, and psychological support and mentoring for such students through proper counselling and mentoring programme.
• To ensure sensitization of facutty, staff, counsellors, and students on the SEDGs issues and their inclusion in all aspects of the University/Institutes.
• To explore and generate funds from various sources like Corporate Social Responsibitities (CSR) and Alumni to provide more financial assistance and scholarships to SEDGs to mitigate opportunity costs and fees for pursuing higher education.
• To coordinate with the Internal Quatity Assurance Cell (IOAC) to raise awareness about the implementation of various policies for inclusive and equitable quality higher education.
• To work as a 'Single Window" for students betonging to SEDGs for their grievances, basic needs, amenities, facitities, welfare measures, and scholarships and fellowships.
• To upload and disseminate guidelines, facilities, welfare, and safety measures on HEI's portal and maintain such records to review and monitor amenities and basic facilities for a safe and secure environment for SEDGs.
• To circutate, publicize, and facilitate existing welfare schemes like - Remedial, NET entry into services, and residential Coaching for SC/ST/OBC (non-creamy layer), Minority Community, and PwD Students.
• To estabtish a team of counsellors, social workers, and faculty members to provide emotional and social support to SEDGs to adapt to the environment of the University/Institutes.
• To focus on overall personality and skill development,including professional and softskills,so as to ensure enhancing the student emptoyabitity.
• To organize periodic meetings and to monitor the progress of various schemes and all the HEIs may prepare a database of such schemes for SEDGs.
• To assess the needs of SEDGs and make necessary recommendations to the authorities of the HEls.
• To make faculty, staff, students, and service professionals aware of facilities available for SEDGs.
• To sensitize all the students to bring an attitudinal change towards SEDGs to ensure participation of SEDGs in curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities in the HEls.
• To hold regutar meetings with representatives of SEDG students to check their grievances and also meet with management/authorities of HEIs to facilitate discussion of the grievances of SEDG students and maintain the confidentiality of deliberations and data.
• To review, monitor, and ensure disposal of all grievances within l5 days.
• To inform all students during induction/counselling session about Zero-tolerance policy for any form of discrimination.
• Any other work assigned by the Vice Chancellor.