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Check rights violations in Maharashtra:
Activists urge NHRC chairman
Thursday January 31, 2013 10:34:16 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai:
Social activist Medha Patkar and representatives of various NGOs
met National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman K.G.
Balakrishnan here Thursday and apprised him about cases of ongoing
human rights violations in Maharashtra.
The representatives of the NGOs pointed out that the chairperson
of the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission had not been
appointed by the government. They also said that the meeting of
the state vigilance committee had not taken place for a long time.
"Social activist Medha Patkar apprised the commission of the
subhuman conditions in which the slum dwellers were living," an
official said.
"She stated that section 5 of the slums act was not being
implemented properly and basic amenities were not available to the
slum dwellers. She also alleged massive corruption in the
implementation of the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme and urged the
commission to make an inquiry into the housing rights of Dalits,"
he added.
Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, on the other hand, informed the
representatives that a team from the commission has heard 571
cases related to atrocities against Scheduled Castes at an open
hearing in Nagpur.
Other NGOs also brought forth many other problems faced by people
in the state. These and other issues, which arose during the
public hearing at Nagpur were taken up with officers of the state
government in an interaction which took place immediately
thereafter.
It was revealed earlier this week that the chief secretary of
Maharashtra is yet to respond to NHRC notice asking details of the
state's intervention in the wake of farmer suicides in Vidarbha.
The panel had given the state four weeks to reply.
The NHRC had then issued a summons to the chief secretary in one
case and the Yavatmal district collector in another as neither the
secretary, state revenue and forest (rehabilitation) department,
nor the Yavatmal district magistrate have responded.
Balakrishnan, however, said the commission met with the chief
secretary of Maharashtra and that he has promised to look into all
the issues and take corrective action.
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