By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : Aiming at quick implementation of its guidelines, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decided to deploy its volunteers in 28 districts across the country, including the militancy and naxal affected states, to have first-hand assessment of the situation there.
As per the plan, NHRC will monitor the status of various programmes launched by the Central and state governments related to human rights in one identified district each from the states including Jammu and Kashmir, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Goa.
This is for the first time that the commission, since its inception in 1993, has looked for a larger role in ensuring implementation of its guidelines instead of merely remaining as a watchdog of human rights.
The move has come following the Commission’s observation that “cutting edge level” implementation of its directions issued time to time has remained a distant dream, sources told PTI here.
Till now, the Commission had been entirely depending on the reports sent to it either by the states or its team on human rights in the affected regions.
The Commission felt monitoring would also help it in planning its future strategies for better protection of human rights, the sources said.
The areas to be monitored would include a broad spectrum of human rights such as food security, right to education, right to health, right to custodial justice and protection of rights of SCs and STs, they said.