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NHRC's seminar on good governance, human rights tomorrow Press Trust of India New Delhi Last Updated at September 20, 2017 21:28 IST The NHRC will hold a two-day national seminar on good governance and human rights starting tomorrow. It comes at a time when issues such as the deaths of children at a hospital in Gorakhpur and planned deportation of Rohingyas have hogged headlines. Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) justice (retd) H L Dattu will deliver the inaugural address, while Home Minister Rajnath Singh will deliver the presidential address at the opening session at the Teen Murti Bhawan here, a senior NHRC official said. Over 70 children had died within a few days in early August at the state-run BRD Medical College in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, sparking an outcry. The issue of Rohingya Muslims continues to be a matter of raging debate, with the Centre telling the Supreme Court in an affidavit on September 18 that these refugees were "illegal" and their presence in the country would pose a "serious" national security threat. Incidentally, the NHRC had last month issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on the Gorakhpur incident and to the Union Home Ministry on the issue of Rohingyas, who had fled their homes in Myanmar. "The NHRC has been consistently highlighting any issue related to the promotion and protection of human rights. Good governance and development are the two such issues. The Commission is striving for being a catalyst to achieve good governance and sustainable development in the country, which may not be relevant without protection to human rights," the rights panel said in a statement today. The seminar is divided into five technical sessions and these will be chaired by NHRC members and addressed as well as attended by different domain experts and top government functionaries from the Centre, state governments and Union Territories, it said. The discussion will focus on areas such as the role of media in civil society in promoting good governance and human rights, discerning indicators of good governance, service delivery mechanism and measures to enhance transparency and accountability, the official said.
The event is the culmination of three regional workshops organised by the Commission on the subject in Shillong (Meghalaya), in Bangalore (Karnataka) and in Chandigarh (Punjab) respectively in order to discuss, among various stake holders, the different aspects related to good governance in the north-eastern region, the southern region and the northern region of the country. "The seminar will also provide a platform to discuss challenges in the way of good governance, identify them and devise ways to deal with them," he said.
Indiatoday.in NHRCs seminar on good governance, human rights tomorrow September 20, 2017 UPDATED 21:30 IST New Delhi, Sep 20 (PTI) The NHRC will hold a two-day national seminar on good governance and human rights starting tomorrow. It comes at a time when issues such as the deaths of children at a hospital in Gorakhpur and planned deportation of Rohingyas have hogged headlines. Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) justice (retd) H L Dattu will deliver the inaugural address, while Home Minister Rajnath Singh will deliver the presidential address at the opening session at the Teen Murti Bhawan here, a senior NHRC official said. Over 70 children had died within a few days in early August at the state-run BRD Medical College in Uttar Pradeshs Gorakhpur, sparking an outcry. The issue of Rohingya Muslims continues to be a matter of raging debate, with the Centre telling the Supreme Court in an affidavit on September 18 that these refugees were "illegal" and their presence in the country would pose a "serious" national security threat. Incidentally, the NHRC had last month issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on the Gorakhpur incident and to the Union Home Ministry on the issue of Rohingyas, who had fled their homes in Myanmar. "The NHRC has been consistently highlighting any issue related to the promotion and protection of human rights. Good governance and development are the two such issues. The Commission is striving for being a catalyst to achieve good governance and sustainable development in the country, which may not be relevant without protection to human rights," the rights panel said in a statement today. The seminar is divided into five technical sessions and these will be chaired by NHRC members and addressed as well as attended by different domain experts and top government functionaries from the Centre, state governments and Union Territories, it said. The discussion will focus on areas such as the role of media in civil society in promoting good governance and human rights, discerning indicators of good governance, service delivery mechanism and measures to enhance transparency and accountability, the official said.
The event is the culmination of three regional workshops organised by the Commission on the subject in Shillong (Meghalaya), in Bangalore (Karnataka) and in Chandigarh (Punjab) respectively in order to discuss, among various stake holders, the different aspects related to good governance in the north-eastern region, the southern region and the northern region of the country. "The seminar will also provide a platform to discuss challenges in the way of good governance, identify them and devise ways to deal with them," he said.
NHRC holding national seminar on `Good Governance, September 20, 2017 Human Rights New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC) is organizing a two- day national seminar on `Good Governance, Development and Human Rights at Auditorium, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Teen Murti Bhawan, New Delhi on September 21 & 22, 2017. The NHRC has been consistently highlighting any issue related to the promotion and protection of human rights. Good governance and development are two such issues. It is striving for being a catalyst to achieve good governance and sustainable development in the country, which may not be relevant without protection of human rights. NHRC Chairperson Justice H L Dattu will deliver the inaugural address. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will deliver the presidential address at the inaugural session starting at 10 am on September 21, 2017. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Law & Justice and Electronics and Information Technology will deliver the valedictory address at the concluding session starting at 1 pm on September 22, according to an NHRC release. The seminar has been divided into five technical sessions spread over two days. They will be chaired by NHRC Members and addressed as well as attended by different domain experts and top government functionaries from Centre, State governments and Union Territories. The discussion will focus on the role of media in civil society in promoting good governance and human rights, discerning indicators of good governance, global best practices and impact of information technology on good governance, service delivery mechanism and measures to enhance transparency and accountability, health and Swacch Bharat initiatives, new paradigm and challenges in good governance with an Indian perspective, the NHRC release said. This national seminar is the culmination of three regional workshops organized by the NHRC on the subject in Shillong (Meghalaya), Bangalore (Karnataka) and in Chandigarh (Punjab) respectively.