A POSH committee the law will stand behind.

NIRAPADA checks an employer’s Internal Committee against the POSH Act before it issues a single document. Odia first, for Odisha’s small and medium employers.

ଆଗେ ଯାଞ୍ଚ, ତା’ପରେ ଦଲିଲ

First the check, then the documents.

Check a committee

Most workplaces on the national register have not recorded a committee.

Workplaces onboarded on SHe-Box1,61,000

With committee details recorded68,460, about 42%

Ministry of Women and Child Development, data as on 27 March 2026 (PIB release, 1 April 2026).

A recorded committee is not necessarily a lawful one. No public dataset tracks whether committees are validly constituted. NIRAPADA’s defect register will produce the first numbers.

3.75 crore: people speak Odia as their mother tongue (Census 2011).
₹2,999: is where POSH template packs start. None of the offers we reviewed checks whether the committee is lawful.
Since 2023: the Supreme Court has moved enforcement from declaration to verification, beginning with Aureliano Fernandes.

A committee on paper is not a remedy.

In 2018 the Delhi High Court set aside an Internal Committee and everything it had done, including its report. Its external member was a labour lawyer with no shown experience of sexual-harassment issues and no link to a women’s organisation. A fresh committee had to hold a fresh inquiry.

The employer had relied on Rule 4, which governs Local Committees, not Internal Committees. Small employers make the same mistake every day, usually with the external member, and document templates copy it faithfully.

Defective compliance is worse than none. It costs the woman time, and the owner still carries the risk.

Ruchika Singh Chhabra v. Air France India, Delhi High Court, 30 May 2018

How NIRAPADA works

1
Answer plain questions
Workers, units, and who sits on the committee. In Odia or English, on a phone.
2
The Refusal Engine checks 14 rules
From section 4 of the Act, its provisos, the Rules and two High Court decisions. If a rule fails, no documents: the owner sees the section, a plain explanation and the fix.
3
Lawful documents, verifiable
Order, notice, policy, consent letters, engagement letter and a SHe-Box checklist, in Odia and English, each with the rules version and a QR code.
4
It stays lawful
Odia modules for workers, reminders before every deadline, a tamper-evident evidence file and the annual report in the Rule 14 format.

Everything in the prototype works

Open any part below. It runs on this laptop with sample data, without the internet.

Refusal EngineFourteen rules stored as data and tested against 60 fact patterns. It refuses, instead of warning. Documents with QR verificationSix documents from one check. Anyone can confirm a document is genuine from its ID. Odia training modulesThree short modules and a five-question check. One phone can screen a whole shift. Compliance calendarEvery duty from the order date, with the law behind it and an Odia reminder. Evidence ledgerSHA-256 fingerprints chained together. Edit an old entry and the chain shows it. Annual reportNumbers only, checked for consistency, in the Rule 14 format. DirectoryQualified, independent external members. Advocates listed only as the Bar Council of India Rules permit. Defect registerEvery check counted without names: the first data on how often committees are defective.

The 14 rules the engine checks

Each rule names its source in law. A refusal blocks every document; guidance must be confirmed; a route sends the unit to the Local Committee.

Rule	What it checks	Law	If it fails

We never hold complaints.

Complaints go to the committee directly, or through SHe-Box. Section 16 keeps them confidential, and so do we, by never having them. Designed for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023: minimum data, with consent.

What NIRAPADA holds

Establishment details
Committee composition and evidence of eligibility
The documents it generates
Training completion records
Annual-report numbers

What it never holds

Complaints
Names of complainants or respondents
Inquiry records or evidence
Any detail of a case

Pricing

A year, excluding GST. External members’ allowances and advocates’ fees are paid directly by the employer; NIRAPADA takes no share.

Plan	For	Price a year
Suraksha Essential	10–49 workers, one site	₹6,000
Suraksha Standard	50–149 workers, or up to three sites; half-yearly review call	₹10,000
Suraksha Plus	150 or more workers, or four to six sites; quarterly review call; priority Odia support	₹15,000
Micro Awareness (optional)	Fewer than ten workers: Local Committee guidance, display kit, worker modules	₹1,500

Pilot: twenty Cuttack enterprises.

Through the District Industries Centre, the Utkal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and our legal aid clinic. Every firm is audited at the start and again after 60 days.

Target	Pilot, month 6	Year 3
Enterprises with a validated committee	20	400
Workers reached by the Odia modules	about 500	about 12,000
Module completion within 30 days	80% or more	85% or more
Time to a validated committee	10 working days or less	7 working days or less

Try it with a real committee.

Seven examples are ready, including the facts of the two High Court cases. Or enter your own.