Annual Report 2010-2011 part of Hazaribagh District. The District Headquarters is located at Chatra. It comprises one sub-division, ten development Blocks/Anchals, 125 Panchayats and 1,479 Revenue Villages. There is only one municipality – which is at the District Headquarters of Chatra. There are nine thanas (Police Stations) in Chatra District. Currently, Chatra is passing through a very serious phase of extremists’ violence by the banned Naxal outfit called the M.C.C. (Maoist Communist Centre). 6.12 The NHRC team in Chatra District headed by Shri Satyabrata Pal, Member visited the local police stations, schools, fair price shops to assess the public distribution system, health centres and hospitals, panchayats and various other departments working for the empowerment of disadvantaged sections. The main objective of these visits was to review the implementation of various programmes of the Centre and State Governments. After these visits, a one-day workshop was also conducted in the District. The workshop was attended by local MLAs, district officials, police officials, representatives of non-governmental organizations and the civil society at large. 6.13 Few of the recommendations/suggestions that emerged out of the deliberations held in Chatra workshop were as follows : • • • • • • • • • • Consider giving incentives to public servants so as to encourage them to serve in Chatra and not a punishment. Taking of disciplinary action against all those who have deserted their posts in Chatra, especially absentee doctors and teachers. Fill up all sanctioned posts on urgent basis, particularly of doctors and teachers, and also police. Paying of special attention to the education of girls and the empowerment of women. Urgently repair or rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the Naxals. Highest priority needs to be given to rebuilding of schools that have been destroyed. The Police in no way should be allowed to occupy schools as camps for themselves. As a matter of priority, there is an urgent need to provide basic facilities in hospitals and schools. Rapidly increase the number of roads in the District, and improve their quality as well. Improve power supply, which is grossly inadequate for the needs of the District. Need to improve the quality and availability of drinking water. Consider the needs and demands of extremely large number of people who are below poverty line, but are not taken care of as they have not been enlisted in the existing lists. Thiruvannamalai District 6.14 Thiruvannamalai District in Tamil Nadu is known as a pilgrimage temple city with the proud possession of the holy shrine of Lord Arunachaleswara. It started functioning as a separate District from 30 September 1989, on bifurcation of the erstwhile North Arcot District. The District is bounded on the north and west by Vellore District, on the south-west 76 NHRC