National Conference on Safety of Women at Workplace and SHe-Box Portal Implementation

Key facts

• The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) will organise the National Conference on Safety of Women at Workplace, SHe-Box at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
• The conference aims to strengthen the implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act).
• Union Women and Child Development Minister Annpurna Devi and Minister of State Savitri Thakur will attend the event to administer a National Workplace Safety Pledge.
• The MWCD launched the SHe-Box portal in August 2024 as a multilingual single-window platform for online complaint filing and real-time tracking.
• The portal serves as a resource hub for workplaces to upload compliance-related information, including Internal Committee details and annual reports under the POSH Act.
• The platform ensures strict confidentiality and automatic forwarding of complaints to the concerned Internal or Local Committee to enhance accountability.