Painting Competition • LGBTQIA+ persons: In the views of the NHRC, all people regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity should be able to enjoy their human rights. The Commission, therefore, had appealed to the Government to take all necessary legislative treatment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity so that no individual or a group of people is deprived of their human rights. The NHRC had also advocated for modification of Section 377 of the IPC to achieve the above object before it was decriminalised for being unconstitutional. Commission has its representatives in the National Transgender Council, established by the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019. The NHRC Core Group on LGBTQIA+ also holds regular meetings to discuss various issues of the community. The Commission also issued an advisory for providing free sex reassignment surgery in government hospitals, for permitting inclusivity, be treated at par with married daughter in the family, be allowed to inherit ancestral agricultural land, and expenditure for uplifment be included in the social responsibility goals u/s 135(1) of the Companies act, 2013. • Migrant workers & other forms of labour: The NHRC had also been monitoring the status of the implementation of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act and assessing the effectiveness of the existing mechanism and schemes of rehabilitation of bonded labours. With the efforts of the NHRC, vigilance committees for monitoring the implementation of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 have now been constituted in all the districts and sub-divisional headquarters of the States covered by the reviews undertaken by the Member. Due to consistent and persistent interventions of the Commission, Government has come up with Central Sector Scheme on Bonded Labour in 2021, with initial payment of compensation of Rs. 20,000 and rehabilitation has been delinked from the outcome of the www.nhrc.nic.in, covdnhrc@nic.in, @India_NHRC HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL | 21