Talk:National Human Rights Commission of India

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--59.144.255.221 16:43, 24 March 2006 (UTC)Why the powers by the Indian Govt., should not be given to the NGO's working dedicatedly towards the protection of human rights in India?


Powers relating to inquiries and Investigation


  (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examine them;
  (b) discovery and production of any document;
  (c) receiving evidence on affidavits;
  (d) requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any court or office;
  (e) the examination of witnesses or documents;
  (f) any other matter which may be prescribed

As India is a parliamentary democracy with a free press,civilian-controlled military, independent judiciary, and active political parties and civic associations. Competitive elections produce regular changes of leadership at the national, state, and municipal levels.

The state governments have primary responsibility for maintaining law and order. However, the central Government provides guidance and support through use of national paramilitary forces and in law has ultimate responsibility for protecting the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution. The Union Ministry for Home Affairs controls the nationwide Indian Police Service, most of the paramilitary forces, and the internal intelligence bureaus. The rapid growth of the internal intelligence bureaus and the increased use of paramilitary forces against separatist insurgencies and communal unrest have given the Home Ministry increasing day-to-day control over law and order operations.Centrally controlled paramilitary forces are deployed throughout India.

The Government does not allow independent monitoring of prisons by NGO's. Prison conditions are, however, the subject of frequent press reports and have been assessed by human rights groups relying on testimony from former detainees. Press reports include charges of sexual abuse of prisoners; the use of prisoners by prison officials for domestic labor; the sale on the black market of food and milk meant for prisoners; and the sale of women prisoners to brothels.

Independent Indian human rights organizations are active and vocal. They include the People's Union for Civil Liberties, the People's Union for Democratic Rights, the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center, Citizens for Democracy, and numerous regional organizations like Human Rights foundation etc working for the voilation of human rights in India. These groups investigate specific allegations of human rights abuses.But the action could not be taken as the don't have the powers and again they have to be in other hands and wait for the things to be done after doing all the investigations and taking all the pains.

In conclusion why not to support growth of NGO's just by awarding powers, if not all then some limited ones so that getting the results for wat they done should become easier and in time.


--59.144.255.221 16:43, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Ashish Saxena

(State chief)Delhi

Manav Adhikar Foundation(India)

Phones:-+91-9911135535,9313599744

Tele Fax-+91-11-42401935

This page only talks about Justice Rajender Babu. Irrelevant and off-topic information.


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[edit] Biased Article

The article appears to be biased against NHRC. There should be some mention of the achievements/actions by NHRC.

[edit] Vandalism

This page has been vandalized, and I can't figure out how long back to restore it. 28 June [1] IP: 202.46.19.1 wrote the Nepal text and 4 April [2] IP: 59.94.115.138 rewrote article and removed categories in the process. —Leo Laursen ( T | C ) 12:32, 20 August 2007 (UTC)