www.expressindia.com - Weather | Horoscope | Stocks | RSS
expressindia web city
HomeBlogsCricketAstrology TendersClassifieds Reader Comments Hotels
Sign In / Register | Archive
Expressindia » Story

NHRC team in tribal belt to take stock of welfare measures

Font Size

Express News Service

Posted: Feb 12, 2009 at 0231 hrs IST

Surat A four-member team of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) arrived at Dangs district on Tuesday to find out whether the tribal people were getting proper facilities to health, education, food supply and prison, among others. The team members met the tribal people to find out their complaints. The team will submit its report to the Central and the state government in the coming days.

A team comprising B C Patel, Tapaswini Mohanti, R K Bhargav and YSR Murty, all from Delhi, arrived at the Ahwa taluka in Dangs district yesterday.

They visited the district food office, schools, hospitals, prisons, department of welfare of SC and ST, Department of Culture and the District Panchayat office.

The team has organised a workshop on the topic of Awareness and Facilitating Assessment and enforcement of Human Rights at district level, on Thursday, at Saputara.

Officials from the district administration, district education, district development, health, police, members of the district panchayat and tribal representatives have been invited to participate in the workshop.

The team members had visited government hospitals, schools, prisons, and fair price shops and noted down the details. They had also spoken to the sarpanchs of different villages and the tribal people, and gathered information about whether they were getting proper facilities of government schemes. An officer said on condition of anonymity that the team members were working on topics of Health and Hygene, Education, Prison, Integrated Child Development Scheme, Food and Supply.

Sources said the NHRC pays its visit to a tribal district in each state and then prepares its report. Till now they have covered eight states in this regard.

Discuss this story on expressindia forums
Post Comments
Name* Email ID*
Subject* Country*
Message*
Characters remaining
 
TERMS OF USE: The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to delete, reject, or otherwise remove any views, opinions and comments posted or part thereof. You shall ensure that the comment is not inflammatory, abusive, derogatory, defamatory &/or obscene, or contain pornographic matter and/or does not constitute hate mail, or violate privacy of any person (s) or breach confidentiality or otherwise is illegal, immoral or contrary to public policy. Nor should it contain anything infringing copyright &/or intellectual property rights of any person(s).
I agree to the terms of use.

Latest News

Business

Showbiz

Sports

No knowledge of threat to Rushdie's life: Maharashtra police

Is Modi fasting to atone for 2002 riots? Cong

BJP fielding Uma shows 'bankruptcy' of its leaders in UP: Digvijay

Team Anna advocating un-Gandhian law: Arundhati Roy

Teenager raped by two youth in UP

2G: Court reserves order on Swamy plea against PC till Feb 4

Priyanka Gandhi among 40 star campaigners of Congress in UP

More
© 2011 The Indian Express Limited. All rights reserved
Advertise With Us | Privacy Policy | Feedback | Express Group | Site Map