India's top firms report zero sexual harassment case, but there's a catch

Zero complaints may be an indicator of a lack of the requisite mechanism to allow for such reporting and capture such complaints

More than a third of India’s top 100 companies based on market capitalisation did not have a single woman employee complain about sexual harassment, data for 2017-2018 shows, prompting experts to fear that the organisations may not have adequate redressal systems.

Six of such companies, which employed more than 500 women as of March 2018, did not get a single sexual harassment complaint in the last three financial years--a trend that seems incredible at a time of the #metoo movement. Coal India, Reliance Industries, Aurobindo Pharma, Bajaj Finance, Divi’s Laboratories and NTPC together employed a total of 24,960 women as