1. PARTICULARS OF NHRC S ORGANIZATION, FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES

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1 1. PARTICULARS OF NHRC S ORGANIZATION, FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES The National Human Rights Commission was set up in the year 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Act, The NHRC has the following constituent Divisions:- a. Law Division: It deals with the matters relating to human rights violations either on its own or on a request by a party, provides hearing to the parties in appropriate cases depending upon the facts and circumstances of each case. b. Investigation Division: It deals with the matters/cases entrusted to it by the Commission including custodial death and finding facts from state authorities regarding cases of alleged Human Rights violations and conducting sport enquiries. c. Administration Division: It deals with the overall management of General Administration, Establishment, Accounts and Hindi Sections. d. Policy Research Projects and Programme Division: It deals with the matters relating to Policy, Research, Projects and Programme such as Abolition of Bonded Labour and child labour. Quality Assurance in Mental Hospitals, Monitoring of working of Protection Homes, Jails etc. e. Information & Public Relations Division: The important function of the I& PR Division is to create human rights awareness through print/electronic media, website and printing of various publications, advocacy materials etc. f. Training Division: It deals with need of training in the different categories of officials and non-officials, institutions/ organizations etc. Networking with national/state level institutions (both Government/ Non-Government/ UN institutions) etc. g. National Informatics Centre : NHRC It deals with the preparation of software programmes for the Commission. 2. THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF ITS OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES The Commission functions as per the powers given to it under the Protection of Human Rights Act, PROCEDURE FOLLOWED IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS, INCLUDING CHANNELS OF SUPERVISION AND ACCOUNTABILITY: The cases are, generally, processed at the Section/Desk level and the files are submitted to Under Secretary/Deputy Secretary/Director/Joint Secretary/ Secretary General/Chairperson, as per the requirement of each case. In the Law Division: the cases are generally processed at the Section level and the files are submitted to Assistant Registrar (Law)/Deputy Registrar (Law)/ Joint Registrar (Law)/ Registrar (Law)/ Members/ Chairperson, as per the requirement of each case. 4. NORMS SET BY NHRC FOR THE DISCHARGE OF ITS FUNCTIONS: The complaints are prioritize and efforts are made to deal with the cases as expeditiously as possible in accordance with the rules, regulations and other instructions issued from time to time. 5. RULES, REGULATIONS, INSTRUCTIONS, MANUALS AND RECORDS, HELD BY NHRC OR UNDER ITS CONTROL OR USED BY ITS EMPLOYEES FOR DISCHARGE OF ITS FUNCTIONS: The Commission discharges its functions in accordance with the rules, regulations, instructions, manuals etc.

2 issued by the Govt. of India and the Commission from time to time. And also as per the mandate given to it under the Protection of Human Rights Act, They are the following: (a) PHRA, 1993 (b) Procedure Regulations (c) R/Rs for all posts in the Commision (d) Administrative functions are guided by Government Rules 6. STATEMENT OF THE CATEGORIES OF DOCUMENTS THAT ARE HELD BY NHRC OR UNDER ITS CONTROL: Details of all the publications of the Commission are available on the web site. The documents held by the Commission include relevant files on subjects dealt with in the Commission and service documents of its officials. 7. PARTICULARS OF ANY ARRANGEMENT THAT EXISTS FOR CONSULTATION WITH, OR REPRESENTATION BY THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO THE FORMULATION OF NHRC S POLICY OR IMPLEMENTATION THEREOF; AND STATEMENT OF THE BOARDS, COUNCILS, COMMITTEES AND OTHER BODIES CONSISTING OF TWO OR MORE PERSONS CONSTITUTED AS NHRC S PART OR FOR THE PURPOSE OF ITS ADVICE: The Commission holds public consultation with NGOs on important issues. Similarly, it also holds public hearings on important Human Rights issues. Members of the public have free access to the commission for ventilating their grievances for any human right issue under the PHRA, STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE ETC. - List of Core Groups/ Expert Groups set up by the Commission are available on the web site. - Court decisions are in public domain. 9. DIRECTORY OF NHRC S OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES: It is already available on the web site. SNo. Name and Designation Address TelephoneNo Mr. Akhil Kumar Jain Secretary General Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Shri Damodar Sarangi Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Director General (Investigation) Shri A.K. Garg Acting Registrar (Law) Smt. Aruna Sharma Joint Secretary Shri P Michael Vetha Siromony Chief Coordinator(Training) Mr. Chandra Kant Tyagi Mr. Pramod Kumar Chaturvedi Mr. R.K. Sharma Ms. P.N. Santhakumari Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Mr. Sudhir Chowdhary Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi

3 Deputy Inspector General Dr. Sanjay Dubey Director (Adm.) Shri Y.S.R. Murthy Director (Research) Mr. M. L. Aneja Joint Registrar (Law) Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi In addition, the number of officials of the level of SSP and below in the National Human Rights Commission is as given below:- Name of the Post Senior Superintendent of Police & equivalent 3 Deputy Registrar (Law) & equivalent 4 Under Secretary/Principal Private Secretary & equivalent 20 Section Officer/Private Secretary/ DSP/ & equivalent 61 Assistant/Personal Assistant & equivalent 59 Upper Division Clerk/Stenographer &equivalent 32 Lower Division Clerk/Staff Car Driver & equivalent 69 Daftry/Sr.Peon & equivalent 10 Peon/Farash & equivalent 68 Organisation 341 No of Post 10. MONTHLY REMUNERATION RECEIVED BY EACH OF ITS OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING THE SYSTEM OF COMPENSATION AS PROVIDED IN ITS REGULATIONS. The officers and the employees in NHRC are being paid monthly remuneration in their respective scale of pay as mentioned below and the allowances as applicable: - SNo. Name Of the Post Pay-Scale 1. Secretary General Rs.26000/- fixed. 2. Director General (Inv.) Rs Registrar (Law) Rs Joint Secretary & equivalent Rs DIG Rs Director & equivalent Rs Deputy Registrar (Law) & equivalent Rs Under Secretary/I.O./AR(Law) & equivalent Rs Section Officer/PS & equivalent AIO/ Sr. Accounts Officer Rs Rs Assistant/Personal Assistant & equivalent Rs /- 11. Upper Division Clerk/ Stenographer &equivalent Rs /- 12. Lower Division Clerk/Staff Car Driver & equivalent Rs Daftary/Senior Peon & equivalent Rs underline 14. Peon/Farash & equivalent Rs THE BUDGET ALLOCATED TO NHRC FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR : Rupees in lakh SI.No. HEAD OF ACCOUNTS REVISED ESTIMATES BUDGET ESTIMATES

4 A. B. 1. PAY & ALLOWANCES a)chairperson & Members b)officers & Establishment Wages Prof. & Others Services O.T.A Travel Expenses a) Foreign Travel a) Domestic Travel Leave Travel Concession Reimb. of Tuition Fees Medical Expenses Total ADMINISTRATIVE & OTHER EXPENSES 1. Seminar/Conf. Charges Assistance to other organisations Telephone & Fax Expenses Rent, Rates & Taxes Newspapers & Periodicals a) Advertisement b) Publicity Postage & telegram Liveries Stationery & Printing a) Stationery b) Printing Publications a) Office Expenses <13.00 b) Other Misc. Expenses c) Exp. for promotion of Official Language (Hindi) 12. a) Leave Salary & Pension Cont. of deputationists b) Pen. Cont of NHRC Emp Water & Electricity Charges Maintenance a) Building (including Horticulture) b) Vehicles c)(i) Machinery & Equipment (ii) Computer, Servers and Others IT Resources d) Furniture & Fixtures Petrol & Lubricants Provident Fund & Contrs Hospitality Expenses Audit Fees Legal Expenses U/s.18(2)

5 C. D. E. 20.a) Research on Human Rights b) Training Other Contributions TOTAL B CAPITAL EXPENDITURE 1. Purchase of Motor Vehicles a) Purchase of Machinery & Equipment b) Purchase of Computer,Severs & Others IT Resources Purchase of Books & Publications Purchase of Furniture & Fixture Renovation a) Civil b) Electrical TOTAL C LOANS & ADVANCES 1. Motor Car/P.C. Advance Motor Cycle/Scooter Advance Bicycle/Fan HBA TOTAL D TOTAL (NON-PLAN) Construction of Building TOTAL (Plan) THE MANNER OF EXECUTION OF SUBSIDY PROGRAMMES, INCLUDING THE AMOUNTS ALLOCATED AND THE DETAILS OF BENEFICIARIES OF SUCH PROGRAMMES: There are no subsidy programmes being implemented by the Commission 13. PARTICULARS OF CONCESSIONS, PERMITS OR AUTHORISATIONS GRANTED BY IT : None 14. DETAILS IN RESPECT OF THE INFORMATION, AVAILABLE TO OR HELD BY NHRC, REDUCED IN AN ELECTRONIC FORM: All information pertaining to the Commission is available on the NHRC s website : nhrc.nic.in 15. PARTICULARS OF FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO CITIZENS FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION, INCLUDING THE WORKING HOURS OF A LIBRARY OR READING ROOM, IF MAINTAINED FOR PUBLIC USE. Facilitation Centre has been set up by the National Human Rights Commission 16. How to get information concerning NHRC under Right to Information Act, 2005.

6 a) The Application for information can be submitted accompanied with IPO/DD/Cash for Rs.10/- drawn in favour of National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi. b) The application should be addressed to The PIO, National Human Rights Commission, Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi (The present PIO is Smt S. Manjula) c) The Appellate Authority Smt Aruna Sharma Joint Secretary National Human Rights Commission, Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi