‘NHRC helping state govts in promoting good governance’

Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Justice K G Balakrishnan on Wednesday said the panel’s visits to different states are aimed at helping them in promoting good governance. ‘The commission’s visits are aimed at helping the state governments in promoting good governance,’ Balakrishnan said inaugurating a three-day NHRC Open Hearing and Camp Sitting in the state capital.

‘Madhya Pradesh has a large number of marginalised sections of the society. The commission has come to the state to impress upon the government to improve the situation related to people’s rights violations,’ he added. The commission has been organising such programmes of public hearings in different states of the country time to time to reach out to people and have a first-hand account of the 

problems faced by dalits and issues of the violations of their rights, he said.

NHRC members Cyriac Joseph and S C Sinha, Secretary General Rajesh Kishore, DG (Investigation) Kanwaljit Deol and several senior officers from the state government were present on the occasion. Minister of State General Administration Lal Singh Arya said the state government is committed to protect the rights of the dalits and will implement NHRC’s recommendations in fulfilment of Constitutional obligations in this regard.