POSH Training 2025-26
POSH Act is a milestone law framed by our country’s legal system to ensure safety and security in the workplace for its women task force. Shikshantar, with its deep-rooted ethos of maintaining an equanimous workplace that facilitates ease of expression and comfort to function at optimal capacities for all its employees, holds these sessions for its entire staff every year.
This year, the session was conducted by Dr. Nidhi Marwah from an NGO, POSHCA. The NGO was started by a Shikshantar parent who shared a passion for the topic. Dr. Marwah spoke in both English and Hindi to best communicate the message to all staff present in ‘Vajeh Bevajeh’ that morning. Using a mix of infographics, self-explanatory slides and case studies, Dr. Marwah brought home the significance of ‘mindful conduct’ when in the workplace.
The POSH Act 2013 expands the meaning of ‘workplace’ to include not just the physical space but also any other function/role/space connected even loosely to work. By ‘mindful conduct’, she included informal talk, jokes, gestures, language, social media behavior or dressing that we take for granted as meaning the same for everyone as it means to us. ‘Impact being larger than the intent’ is the byline to be followed when any such case is reported to the ICC.
As the talk ended, some of the staff asked questions to further clarify the policy. This session is vitally important in maintaining a respectful workplace and ensuring that all team members feel safe in their workplace.