GURUGRAM: The district-level Local Complaints Committee (LCC) is going to serve notices to around 3,000 companies in the city for not abiding by guidelines on prevention of sexual harassment of women at workplace.Additional deputy commissioner Munish Sharma, who heads the district committee, said most of these companies had either not formed any internal complaints committee (ICC), or had not been furnishing annual reports to LCC, or did not inform their staff properly about the existence of an ICC in the organisation, etc.The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, mandates an organisation with a minimum strength of 10 staff to constitute an internal committee headed by a woman to deal with such matters. However, cases of harassment in organisations with less than 10 employees and matters related to domestic helps are directly dealt with by the district committee.Further, Sharma said the committee was going to take punitive action against companies not following the rules from this year and slap fines that would range from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh each. “While the proposed penalty will force companies to take the matters related to sexual harassment at workplace seriously, the funds thus generated will help cash-strapped LCC to strengthen its system by hiring a full-time counsel to fight court cases and pay its other members,” Sharma said.Anuradha Sharma, the chairperson of the district committee, said the state government had not allocated any budget for LCC in the past three years. According to her, there are 35 nodal officers associated with block-level committees to deal with cases of sexual harassment in office.“In the past three years, we have handled around 70 cases. In eight of those cases, respondents have moved court. And in one case, the respondent has moved the apex court, challenging a high court decision in favor of LCC,” she added.