Guwahati: A two-day ‘Camp Sitting and Public Open Hearing’ to hear the complaints related to the human rights violations in north-eastern States of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Sikkim and Nagaland has been organised in the city.
Organised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) India, the public hearing on 16 and 17 December 2021 at Assam administrative staff college in Khanapara locality, will be inaugurated by NHRC chairperson justice Arun Mishra. NHRC members justice MM Kumar & Rajiv Jain, secretary general Bimbadhar Pradhan with other senior NHRC officers will be present.
Tomorrow, 31 cases pertaining to Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Sikkim and Nagaland will be taken up in a single sitting. These include fresh complaints received in response to the NHRC’s public notices for open hearing as well as some earlier registered cases.
Next day, 9 cases which are already in progress before the it, will be taken up for consideration. The cases will be heard in the presence of complainants and concerned public authorities, so that some decisions are taken on the spot for redressal of grievances of the victims of rights violations.
Later the NHRC will hold a meeting with NGOs and human rights defenders to ascertain the rights situation and related issues in these States. It will be followed by a meeting with the senior officers of all the five States to discuss the important human rights issues.
NHRC has been organizing public sittings in different States of India since 2007 and has so far held more than 40 such hearings with the objective of quick disposal of cases and to sensitize and create awareness about human rights at the grassroots.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, NHRC could not hold any sittings after Raipur in February 2020 but with the improvement in the situation, it restarted these activities with the two-day sitting in Shillong for three north-eastern States of Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura, which concluded on 15 December.
