working on these issues for decades and yet had the susceptibility of muddling up 'human rights' with 'law and order situation', have rectified themselves, accepted the jurisprudential definition of human rights and vehemently engaged in promoting it. All the more gratifying is that, “Jatiyo Manobadhikar Commission”- this name today has become a household term. Not only in the big metropolitans, but by virtue of the media, especially the electronic media, the rural people are familiar with at least the name of the Commission. 4. H av i n g s a i d t h at , i t d e m a n d s mentioning that the task of awareness building and self promotion had to be done by a number of techniques: visiting the prisons, the child care centres, safe homes, orphanages; visiting the cadet colleges and primary schools etc. We visited these institutions regularly, analyzed the concerned human rights situation and furthered our considered suggestions to the Government for ameliorating the prevailing circumstances. Not only that, whenever there have been sensitive incidents of human rights violation, we have tried to respond immediately and demanded the government that necessary measures be taken for the protection of human rights. By way of almost daily appearance before the press, official and public statements, NHRC organized workshops, seminars, consultations etc. we have been able to create expectations and demands amongst the citizens, which we regard as one of the feats of NHRC. In the eyes of many critics NHRC has created expectations beyond its capacity. One of the critics went even so 6 far as to say that “National Human Rights Commission is in critical juncture of hype versus real action”. Such assessment may not be totally devoid of truth, but the way NHRC proclaimed its existence to catch the attention of the mass , is not that praise worthy? 5. Our self-proclaimed achievement becomes all the more real when we see that NHRC achieved all these feats in an environment of inadequate of human resources and infrastructural facilities. The 28 persons' workforce that had been approved for NHRC almost one year after its assuming office has not increased till today. Time and again did we mention that amongst the allotted 28, except the 4 deputed government employees, almost 20 belong to various categories of support staff (e.g. drivers, P.A., Sweeper, night guard, telephone operator etc). Only 8 persons are capable of intellectual contribution (including the 4 deputed officers).This in a country of nearly 160 millions! Probably, it goes without saying that doing anything with a force of only 8 persons is doing the impossible. 6. Within four months of taking up the office, NHRC outlined the Five Year Strategic Plan wherein “Establishing Human rights Culture in the Society and the State” was defined as our ultimate objective. So as to materialize this goal, we devised the 'Rights-based Yet Dutyconscious' approach. Therefore, whenever we investigated any human rights violation case or visited any State service-delivery institution or whenever there had been hearing of any complaint whatsoever, it was our first and foremost concern to find out whose negligence led to the human right violation., whose non-performance of