National Human Right Commission safe building and infrastructure in schools; children falling ill after consuming mid-day meals in schools; dubious functioning of IVF clinics; sexual assault, rape and trafficking of children and women; killing of persons on allegations of practising witchcraft; suicide by farmers; enticing children for begging; stray dog menace; pesticides in vegetables and fruits; botched up cataract surgery; separate anganwadis for children of dalits; poor facilities in Primary Health Centres resulting in death of new born babies; increasing incidents of missing children; and atrocities against vulnerable sections like the Scheduled Castes, Chapter - 1 lack of educational facilities and basic amenities like drinking water, toilet, Scheduled Tribes, Minorities, Other Backward Classes, children, women, disabled and the elderly. In all these, apart from making important interventions by way of issuing directives to the concerned State Governments and sending its own team from the Investigation Division for conducting spot inquiries, the Commission also recommended payment of monetary relief to the victims whose rights were violated or their next-of-kin along with furnishing of proof of payments it recommended. 1.7 It held Camp Sittings and Open Hearings in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Puducherry; explored areas of cooperation and coordination between NHRC and State Human Rights Commissions for protecting and promoting human rights; dealt with the issue of leprosy; rescue, release and rehabilitation of bonded and child labourers; right to health care including mental health care; right to food; right to education; sexual and reproductive health and well being; and concentrated on issues forming part of the second cycle of the universal periodic review of India undertaken in 2012 by the United Nations Human Rights Council which had the concurrence of the Government of India. All this, the NHRC felt would facilitate in preparing its independent report for the third cycle of the periodic review that is to take place in 2017. In addition, the NHRC continued to spread human rights literacy among various sections of society including key stakeholders like the judicial officers, police personnel, Annual Report - 2015-2016 3