Annual Report 2009-2010 • NGOs alone shoud be made responsible for distribution of the mid-day meal scheme in the District. The identified NGOs should be directed to pay special a�ention to the over all nutritional quality of the food to be served under the scheme as well as its related aspects in terms of maintaing cleanliness when the food is cooked and its transportation to the respective schools for distribution. • The District police should carry out proper investigations on complaints lodged in the police stations and in no way should illegally arrest innocent persons on false accusations. Other than this, undertrials and convicts need to be treated in a humane manner. Complaints of torture against undertrials and convicts should be looked into instantaneously. • The District authorities should immediately recruit teachers in all the schools as per the prescribed student-teacher ratio. The policy relating to transfer of teachers also needs to be reviewed by the District authorities. The services of teachers should only be used for work concerning education and not for non-educational work. • There is also an immediate need to fill-up all the vacant posts in primary and community health centres and hospitals and facilities being provided therein must have all the required essentials. Hoshiarpur District The NHRC team in Hoshiarpur District of Punjab was led by Justice Shri G. P. Mathur, Acting Chairperson, NHRC. Other officers in the team were the Secretary-General and Director (Admn.). The NHRC team during its visit assessed the situation of anganwadi centres; schools; police stations and community health centres functioning in the District. The team also visited the District jail in Hoshiarpur. Therea�er, a workshop was convened in the District which was a�ended by representatives from various Departments like the police, prisons, food, women and child development, panchayati raj and functionaries of NGOs. Some of the major recommendations/suggestions of the workshop organized in Hoshiarpur were as follows : 94 • It was observed during the workshop that some wealthy people had been issued BPL cards. It was thus recommended that there is a need to scrutinize all the BPL cards issued by the District authorities so far and in future it should be ensured that these cards are given to people only as per the required eligibility criteria failing which strict action would be taken against the concerned officials. • Similarly, there is a need to constitute Vigilance Commi�ees in the District as the same had not been constituted in the last two years. • There is an immediate need to fill-up all vacant posts of school teachers in all the schools as per the prescribed qualifications and experience. NHRC