POSH Act 2013 · Compliance

The compliance hat no NGO can skip.

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 applies to every NGO with 10 or more workers, paid or volunteer. Section 4 mandates an Internal Committee, Section 21 mandates an annual return, and Section 26 imposes penalties up to ₹50,000 for non-compliance. Donateazy ships the whole thing in your dashboard.

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What ships with POSH

A full Internal Committee, on day one.

IC roster (§4)

Add Internal Committee members with name, designation, photo, term-start and term-end. Required: a Presiding Officer (woman), two members, and an external member from an NGO or person familiar with sexual-harassment issues.

Complaint register

Log every complaint with date, complainant, respondent, summary, IC enquiry outcome and recommendation. Confidentiality enforced at the role level - only IC members see case detail.

Statutory forms

Templates for Forms A through G (complaint, settlement, enquiry report, etc.). Pre-populated with NGO details. Download as PDF, print, file.

Annual return (§21)

Auto-compile the annual return from logged complaints, IC composition, and outreach activities. Submit to the District Officer; archive a signed copy in the document vault.

Awareness register

Track POSH awareness sessions, training dates, attendee lists. Required evidence under §19(c). Upload signed attendance sheets.

Audit-ready

Every record is timestamped, role-scoped and exportable. Compliance auditors and CAs can pull a complete POSH pack in one click for FCRA / ITR-7 scrutiny.

Who needs POSH compliance

If your NGO has 10 or more workers, this is mandatory.

The Act defines "workers" broadly - full-time staff, part-timers, volunteers, contract staff, interns and consultants all count. Most growing NGOs cross the threshold faster than they realise. Non-compliance penalties (§26) escalate from ₹50,000 to license cancellation on repeat offences, and FCRA renewal applications routinely ask for POSH compliance evidence.

District-level POSH compliance audits became more frequent after the 2023 Supreme Court direction in Aureliano Fernandes v. State of Goa. Donateazy's POSH module surfaces the gaps before the auditor does.

POSH-compliant in under an hour.

Add IC members, log past awareness sessions, file the annual return. Available on Pro and Enterprise.

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