NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
including visible action against the defaulters as per the government rules on the
subject.
9.
Combating Corruption: Prevention of Corruption Act, effective implementation of RTI
Act, Digital India, E-governance, Demonetization and formation of Special Investigation
Team (SIT), to fight black money and corruption are few steps that will greatly help to
combat corruption and facilitate holistic development thereby promoting transparency,
accountability and equitability.
10.
Improvement of Health Care and Infrastructure: Adequate budget allocation towards
holistic health care, including creation of health care infrastructure is needed. Create
‘digital doctors’ with tele-consultation. Senior citizens need special care and protection.
There should be provisions for the fulfilment of those needs and requirements that are
unique to senior citizens.
11.
Need for Focus on Quality Education: Modification of curriculum of education which
includes quality infrastructure, quality of teachers and building a culture of human
rights is required. There is a need to develop teaching/training curriculum for making
/enabling Apps in structured norms for the school students. Further, there is also a
need to develop technology driven initiatives which can also check/plug leakage in
the mid-day meal scheme under ICDS.
12.
Encourage Research and Create Data Baseline: New research is essential for finding
ways to prevent or mitigate the impact of economic, climate and population changes
as well. More than 93 per cent of workers work in the unorganized sector and migrate
from one State to the other. Such workers are not even paid minimum wages and are
exploited due to their vulnerability. The recipient state should register; maintain data
of migrant workers working in organized and unorganized sectors on an online portal
which should be regularly updated by the State.
13.
Creation of Effective Vigilance Committee at the State, District and Sub-District
Level: There should be effective vigilance committees at the State, District and Taluka
levels to identify, rescue, release, rehabilitate and reintegrate bonded and child labourers
into society. Vigilance committees should be fully functional and contact details of all
the members with the phone numbers, e-mail details should be uploaded on the State
web portal.
14.
Enhance Gender Sensitivity: To enhance gender sensitivity there is a need to change our
mindset and attitudes of the people towards women, gender sensitization programmes
should be held in various government offices through sensitization campaigns, training,
workshop, programs etc. at regular intervals.
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