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directed the State Government to constitute the State Human Rights Commission within
four months.
15.5 The National Human Rights Commission, meanwhile, has continued to hold
meetings with the Chairpersons and members of the existing State Human Rights
Commissions with a view to developing healthy conventions in the functioning of the
various Commissions and to ensure that, in their effort to promote and protect human
rights in the country, they work together smoothly and to the maximum benefit of all
of the people of this country. However, the National Human Rights Commission cannot
but observe once again, that it is disappointed with the slow pace with which State
Governments are acting to constitute State Human Rights Commissions. It has also
noted that not all the State Human Rights Commissions that have been established, are
being appropriately supported through the provision ofadequate financial and manpower
resources. It strongly recommends, that those State Governments that have not yet
constituted Human Rights Commissions, do so at the earliest, and that wherever such
Commissions have been constituted, they be provided the backing that is essential to
their proper functioning.
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