4 min learnMumbaiUp to date: Could 22, 2026 10:29 PM IST
The Nationwide Fee for Ladies (NCW) has directed Tata Consultancy Providers (TCS) to undertake instant corrective measures to strengthen office security and compliance with the Sexual Harassment of Ladies at Office (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, following a listening to into allegations rising from its Nashik workplace.
The listening to, chaired by NCW chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar on Could 21, was carried out after submission of the Fee’s inquiry report into the case. Senior TCS officers attended just about after a particular request was accepted by the Fee. Additionally current had been NCW Further Secretary B. Radhika Chakravarthy, members of the fact-finding committee, and senior Fee officers.
NCW officers mentioned, “Throughout the listening to, the Fee raised critical considerations concerning systemic gaps in office security and implementation of the PoSH Act on the Nashik unit. Points mentioned included the absence of accessible native HR infrastructure and grievance redressal mechanisms, lack of a devoted Inner Committee for the Nashik workplace, absence of a correct mechanism for submitting PoSH complaints, non-functional CCTV infrastructure, considerations concerning supervisory accountability, and the continuation of a joint Inner Committee for each Pune and Nashik models regardless of statutory necessities underneath the PoSH Act.”
The Fee additionally questioned why no senior officers had visited the Nashik centre to straight work together with workers regardless of the
seriousness of the considerations raised in the course of the inquiry.
“Whereas acknowledging and respecting the Tata Group’s vital contribution to the nation, the Fee emphasised that as a nationally revered company establishment and function mannequin, the Group is predicted to uphold and implement the provisions of the PoSH Act in each letter and spirit,” the NCW officers mentioned.
Chairperson, NCW, directed TCS to undertake instant corrective measures to strengthen institutional safeguards and PoSH compliance mechanisms. The Fee directed all 127 TCS models with ten or extra workers to represent separate Inner Committees inside 4 weeks, conduct complete POSH coaching programmes, guarantee submission of annual POSH studies to involved authorities, and make sure the bodily presence of involved officers in the course of the subsequent overview assembly scheduled after 4 weeks.
Throughout the proceedings, the Fee reiterated, “Organisations should strategy PoSH victims with compassion, sensitivity, and empathy.” The NCW additional emphasised that whereas prison proceedings will proceed independently in accordance with regulation, the Fee stays centered on guaranteeing efficient implementation of the PoSH Act and strengthening office security mechanisms for ladies workers.
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Sources within the TCS advised The Indian Categorical, “We responded to the queries raised by the NCW officers yesterday and we offered our perspective. POSH mechanisms had been displayed at a number of places within the workplace as a part of customary compliance process. When you go to the cafeteria or breakout zones, the data is obtainable there. These are necessary necessities and are in place. As per the corporate protocol, each worker goes by means of the POSH coaching. In any ODC surroundings, cameras and cellphones are restricted as a result of these are client-sensitive workspaces. This isn’t distinctive to TCS; it’s customary trade observe throughout supply centres and name centres. The committee seems to have interpreted the absence of CCTV inside ODCs as a compliance failure with out understanding the character of those safe workspaces. CCTV techniques stay purposeful in frequent areas and disputed strategies that the workplace lacked surveillance infrastructure completely. We’ll adjust to all the opposite strategies given by the NCW.”
