Equal Opportunity

India is a country with a variety of ethnic, linguistic, regional, economic, religious, class and castes groups and is also permeated with immense differences and equalities that needs to be recognized and to value individual differences in the learning environment. The employees and students must be treated equally and given the same opportunity regardless of their race, age, gender, sexuality, disability that might be discriminated against them. With this aim, Shillong College established the PwD Welfare Committee in 2018 which was renamed as the Equal Opportunity Cell (EOC) in 2019 to ensure that staffs, especially the students can expect fair and equal treatment to avail opportunities and is free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimization during their precious years of gathering knowledge and wisdom in the college.

Year of Establishment: March 2018

Objectives: 1. To identify and prevent discrimination of the disadvantaged groups {SCs,STs,Women, OBC (non-creamy layer), minority and physically challenged persons} 2. To help in solving and addressing their problems. 3. To create awareness programs to meet the needs of the students.