Whether the philosophy of National Institutions: their creative and constructive role in promoting human rights and the key requisites for their effective functioning, partialarly in the context of the administrative system in India, are captured and incorporated in the Act? Whether, in consideration of the fact that most of the complaints received by the Commission concern the Home Ministry, the Commission's administrative link should be with that Ministry or with the Cablnet Secretariat? Whether the proviso to Section 1(2) of the Act is appropriate, as the Commission is of the view that any legislation to provide for an additional mechanism to protect and promote human rights is referable to entries 13 and 14 of List Ito the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution? Whether the definition of "human rightswin Section 2(d) of the Act is adequate and happily worded? Whether, in consideration of the resource constraints of small States, a five Member Commisdon is necessary? Whether Section 14(1) of Act is comprehensive enough to enable a procedure of inquiry into complaints by "Human Rights Complaints Authoritiesn to be set-up under the Director-Generalof Police in the States? Whether it is necessary to provide for a power to commit in contempt of the Commission, in cases where there is inordinate delay on the part of the authorities concerned in responding to notices issued by the Commission? What procedure could be evolved for timely response, by the authorities concerned, to the recommendations of the Commission? Whether Section 16 of the Act should be retained in its present form? In the context of a vary large number of cases handled by the Commission, whether specific provisions in the Act are necessary to enable conduct of inquiry by a level below the Commission? Whether it is necessary to clarify and lay down the precise scope and purpose of the provisions of Section 30 of the Act relating to the constitution of Human Rights Courts?

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