CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday decided to Emphasise That the Defense of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act on People who misbehave during online Courses.

In addition, it made a decision to framework guidelines to stop sexual harassment of pupils during online courses conducted by universities and educational associations. A helpline will be set for pupils to whine. The cybercrime wing will look into the circumstances. The move comes a day after a instructor using a Chennai school has been arrested on complaints of sexual harassment through online courses. In an announcement, chief minister K Stalin stated that the college education department could framework guidelines for regulating and conducting online courses per week for that a committee containing the commissioner of their college education department, police officers of cybercrime wing and offense against kids, academicians and IT specialists will be included. Additionally, it will frame the principles to make sure that sexual harassment can be avoided. In addition, he stated that colleges must document online classes and also the records must be examined periodically by a committee containing parent-teacher institution. The decision had been taken in a meeting chaired by the ministry to talk about strategies to control online classes and also to determine the sort of action which may be obtained when things go wrong through the behavior of courses.