duties created the problem. We
endeavored to find out what and whose
rights had been violated, and what
remedies should ensue.
In respect of the civil and political
rights of the people, NHRC
recommended that “The state has to
be more humane”.
7. By means of the Strategic Plan, we
realized that in this country with limited
resources, if the scanty government
allotment of any public service
institution is responsibly expended,
then the present amount of allotment is
adequate to render more effective
services to the people and to more
meaningfully realize the economic
social and cultural rights of the people.
The present Commission from its start
emphasized more on the economic and
social rights because it has now been
perceived beyond any doubt that in
order to ensure the most prime right of
the common people – right to life- there
is no alternative to realizing the social
and economic rights.
We can proudly say that our policy and
work plan has yielded fruitful results
in the sense that at present the Non
Government Human Rights
organizations too are being more
vocal about these rights vis-a-vis
political and civil rights.
9. A large part of the NHRC workload
during the reporting year accounted for
a number of national consultation
seminars as a preparation for the
second round of Universal Periodic
Review by the UN Human Rights Council
where for the very first time NHRC as
the national human rights institution
submitted its stakeholder report. The
way NHRC has conducted its activities
has drawn appreciation both at the
domestic and international levels and
by way of this submission of report
NHRC has appeared as a bright new star
in the international arena too. These
consultation seminars in the truest
sense have been a glaring example of
participatory democracy and brilliant
endeavour to bring the idea of human
rights at the door step of the common
people.
8. It is a historical truth that it is always
the state who is held liable for violation
of human rights and more often for
pilfering of civil and political rights and
in this respect also the NHRC did not
show any laxity in maintaining its duty
during the tenure -the perpetrator of
human rights violations whether it is an
individual or an institution has been
made accountable, measures have
been taken to provide effective remedy
to the aggrieved or victims, the
concerned Government institutions
has been recommended to take due
measures for human rights protection.
10.In today's world, the prevalent human
rights situation in a State has been
recognized as the determinant of its
civility. The NHRC report, once in every
year, is not merely for the purpose of
realization, practice, and development
of the various traditional generations of
human rights; on the contrary
whenever any special situation
occurred, NHRC did not play the role of
passive spectator-we have relentlessly
strived to make our presence felthowever limited it may be- relying upon
our own strength as well as by way of
conjuring assistance from others. With
this intention, last year NHRC has jointly
taken a number of initiatives with
various inter-governmental and
international organizations such as
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