Somesh Kumar, CS to Govt, holds a meeting over the Women Harassment issues of the Film and Television Industry in the State

01-06-2022

PRESS NOTE

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The High Level Committee constituted to look into the women harassment issues pertaining to the film and television industry in the state submitted its report to the Chief Secretary Sri Somesh Kumar IAS at a meeting held at BRKR Bhavan today.

During the meeting Chief Secretary congratulated the members of the committee for submitting a comprehensive report on the issues pertaining to harassment of women in the film and television industry and suggesting measures to tackle this menace. He suggested that all the stakeholders in the film and other media industry should come together to address these issues. There is need to come out with standard operating procedures, he added. Chief Secretary stated that there is a need to create awareness about the various provisions and suggested that the film industry should consider online membership of the unions.


The Committee Members requested that recommendations may be implemented.

Smt.G.Vijaya Lakshmi, H.W.Mayor, GHMC, Sri Arvind Kumar, Special Chief Secretary, MA& UD, Smt. Rani Kumudini, Special Chief Secretary, LET& F, Sri Ravi Gupta, Principal Secretary, Home, Sri C.V.Anand, Commissioner, Hyderabad, Sri Mahesh Bhagwat, Commissioner, Rachakonda, Smt. Swathi Lakra, Add. DGP, Women Safety Wing, Smt. D.Divya, Special Secretary, WCD &; SC, Sri Ahmad Nadeem, Commissioner, Labour.


C.Kalyan, President, Telugu Film Producers Council, Anupam Reddy, Secretary, State Film Chamber of Commerce, Preeti Nigam, Film and TV Artiste, Prof. Vasanthi, NALSAR University of Law, Y.Supriya, Producer and Studio Owner, Jhansi, Film and TV Artiste, N.Shankar, Film Director, ANVESHI, K.Satyavathi, BHUMIKA attended the meeting.