There are several situations or moments when employees want or need to file an official complaint. The complaint may vary from inappropriate treatment or harassment or about health or safety issues in the workplace. Our grievance procedure has been created to let all our employees know that they are heard and equally treated. The grievance can be filed against any employee, including seniors and/or colleagues. It can be filed by any employee of Aaj Bikel. Aaj Bikel defines grievance as a formal complaint or issue which is related to work made by an employee. Employees can file a complaint in the following cases – 1. Workplace harassment 2. Attack on health and safety 3. Inappropriate management behavious 4. Violation of policy guidelines 5. Dispute between colleagues Employees can directly file their complaints by contacting the Editor. Employees can attend meetings or work after filing complaint. He/she may refuse to attend work until and unless the problem is solved. Aaj Bikel will accept and investigate the complaint and will ensure to resolve the problem within 7 days depending of the seriousness of the case. Both the complainant and accused will be treated fairly by Aaj bikel. The company will organize meetings when needed. All records of the grievance will be accurately and comprehensively maintained. Aaj Bikel will maintain confidentiality throughout and will not discuss the grievance before and after it has been solved. It can take disciplinary action including termination against employees who violates the Grievance Procedure Policy.

Aaj Bikel is an independent media company and hence can exercise its editorial independence over its own content. Aaj Bikel is serious about its ethics policy and looks into all breeches in it. It takes into consideration potential conflicts of interests and takes decision accordingly. Employees such as reporters, sub-editors, video-editors and others cannot plagiarize any of their writings. The editor of Aaj Bikel must be contacted if a violation of its ethics policy is noted.

This is an era of fake news. It is a world (on social media) where anyone and everyone is either a news maker or news breaker. Social media platforms are used to spread information. Question lies whether the information is authentic or fake. Even if the information is true, is it either misinformation or disinformation. Hence, involves the role of a reporter who must use words with great caution. They must precisely use their headlines and URLs. It is because words have great power. It is compulsory for a reporter to verify the information that he or she will gather. Not only will the reporter have to identify names and positions but will also have to verify factual statements and accounts. Based on ethics policy and self-judgment, reporters will have to fact-check first.

To err is human. If mistakes do happen, Aaj Bikel does not hesitate to acknowledge and respond when brought to notice. We correct the errors immediately within 24 hours of getting noted. Correction can take upto 72 hours if it needs investigation. Feedback from our readers is very important to us. Readers/Viewers can post feedback in the comment section at the end of every news article or video. Our email id is aajbikel2014@gmail.com, where you can reach out to us. Aaj Bikel also keeps note of its large presence on social media platforms and invites feedback and/or criticism from its readers or viewers. However, corrections made in case of typographical errors, wrong spellings, grammatical errors or small or minor changes that are not significant as per our editor, is not noted.

Aaj Bikel (RNI WBBEN-2014-65433) is India’s leading online news portal which offers the latest national and international news, news on current affairs, politics, jobs, education, entertainment, real estate, city news, health, career, lifestyle and food that enables its viewers to stay abreast with all the latest developments in West Bengal. AajBikel.com is a well reputed Bengali news portal which has been publishing news uninterruptedly since 2014 from the biggest border town between India and Bangladesh, called Bongaon at North 24 Parganas in West Bengal. It is the biggest commercial town in this part of the land which deals with thousands of crores of rupees worth of business in export and import between India and Bangladesh. It is connected both by roadways and railways to Kolkata. Lakhs of passengers travel between both the countries throughout the year.