Annual Report 2010-2011 right to life to include right to food and to make the latter a guaranteed fundamental right by virtue of the remedy provided under Article 32 of the Constitution. 6.6 It is in this light that the Commission has been monitoring, since 1997, the situation of recurrent allegations of death by starvation in Kalahandi, Bolangir and Koraput Districts of Odisha and elsewhere in the country including suicides committed by farmers. Besides, it is monitoring schemes such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Mid-day Meals (MDM) in primary schools, and the Public Distribution System (PDS) under one of its programmes entitled “Human Rights Awareness and Facilitating Assessment & Enforcement of Human Rights Programme in Selected 28 Districts of India”. A. Human Rights Awareness and Facilitating Assessment & Enforcement of Human Rights Programme in Selected 28 Districts of India 6.7 28 Districts, one from each State, have been selected from the list of identified Districts availing the ‘Backward Regions Grant Fund’ of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India. The parameters on which these backward districts have been identified are – rate of illiteracy, percentage of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population, infant mortality rate, etc. The names of the 28 districts identified by the Commission are as follows: S. No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 74 NHRC State Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Gujarat Goa Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Article I. District Adilabad Upper Subansiri Karbi Anglong Jamui Dantewada Dang South Goa Ambala Chamba Kupwara Chatra Bidar Wayanad Jhabua Gadchiroli Tamenglong South Garo Hills Saiha Mon