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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, 1993. 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. For more, please Click here

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, 1993.

3. 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. 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, 1993. 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, 1993.

8. 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.

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: -

11. THE BUDGET ESTIMATES, REVISED ESTIMATES VIS-A-VIS EXPENDITURE SINCE INCEPTION OF NHRC :

(Rs. in Lakhs)

YEAR	BUDGET ESTIMATES		REVISED ESTIMATES		EXPENDITURE
	Non-Plan	Plan	Non-Plan	Plan	Non-Plan	Plan
1994-1995			210.00		187.07
1995-1996	220.00		225.00		215.64
1996-1997	300.00		381.00		329.43
1997-1998	450.00		450.00		381.36
1998-1999	500.00		650.00		536.66
1999-2000	616.00		600.00		490.63
2000-2001	655.00		620.00		566.08
2001-2002	620.00		720.00		693.05
2002-2003	732.00		870.00		817.63
2003-2004	938.00	50.00	1033.00	100.00	961.15	100.00
2004-2005	1070.00	400.00	1135.00	188.00	1063.51	188.00
2005-2006	1234.00	400.00	1228.00	**	1119.82	--
2006-2007	1174.00	400.00	1348.00	**	1317.59	--
2007-2008	1461.00	100.00	1651.00	100.00	1612.37	100.00
2008-2009	1661.00	50-MAB 100-CHMS	1894.00	50-MAB 100-CHMS	1854.49	50-MAB 100-CHMS
2009-2010	1911.00	2825-MAB 200-CHMS

**Surrendered

THE BUDGET ALLOCATED TO NHRC FROM THE FINANCIAL YEAR 2005-06 ONWARDS:

		RUPEES IN LAKHS
Sl.No	HEAD OF ACCOUNTS	REVISED ESTIMATES 2005-2006	REVISED ESTIMATES 2006-2007	REVISED ESTIMATES 2007-2008	REVISED ESTIMATES 2008-2009	BUDGET ESTIMATES 2009-2010
A.	1. PAY & ALLOWANCES a)Chairperson & Members b)Officers & Establishment	30.00 505.00	28.00 545.00	31.00 594.00	45.00 924.00	58.00 1100.00
	2. Wages	6.50	9.00	10.00	12.00	8.00
	3. Prof. & Others Services	48.00	54.00	57.00	104.00	90.00
	4. O.T.A.	6.00	6.00	6.00	4.00	6.00
	5. Travel Expenses a) Foreign Travel a) Domestic Travel	32.00 30.00	84.00 32.00	60.50 38.00	70.50 40.00	70.00 30.00
	6. Leave Travel Concession	15.00	20.00	15.00	42.00	10.00
	7. Reimb. of Tuition Fees	0.50	0.65	0.65	0.35	10.00
	8. Medical Expenses	42.00	26.00	28.00	30.00	30.50
	TOTAL A.	715.00	804.65	840.15	1271.85	1412.50
B.	ADMINISTRATIVE & OTHER EXPENSES 1. Seminar/Conf. Charges	32.00	60.00	17.00	60.00	30.00
	2. Assistance to other organisations	13.00	0.00	00.00	00.00	0.00
	3. Telephone & Fax Expenses	25.00	23.00	27.00	26.00	20.00
	4. Rent, Rates & Taxes	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	5. Newspapers & Periodicals	5.50	7.80	7.50	9.00	3.00
	6. a) Advertisement	3.00	5.50	5.00	3.00	3.00
	b) Publicity	10.00	8.50	25.50	4.50	1.00
	7. Postage & telegram	18.00	18.20	21.00	24.00	20.00
	8. Liveries	2.00	3.50	0.50	1.00	1.00
	9. Stationery & Printing a) Stationery b) Printing	19.00 2.50	22.20 6.50	24.00 5.50	28.50 9.00	8.00 3.00
	10. Publications	30.00	41.50	28.00	16.00	10.00
	11. a) Office Expenses b) Other Misc. Expenses c) Exp. for promotion of Official Language (Hindi)	18.00 0.00 6.00	31.50 0.00 1.05	45.50 0.00 4.50	73.00 0.00 1.75	30.00 0.00 3.00
	12. a) Leave Salary & Pension Cont. of deputationists	38.00	32.00	31.00	69.00	125.00
	b) Pen. Cont of NHRC Emp.	3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	13. Water & Electricity Charges	35.00	41.00	45.00	38.00	35.00
	14. Maintenance
	a) Building (including Horticulture)	35.00	50.00	248.50	30.00	5.00
	b) Vehicles c)(i) Machinery & Equipment (ii) Computer, Servers and Others IT Resources d) Furniture & Fixtures	5.00 16.00 4.00 3.00	2.50 18.00 5.00 2.00	6.00 25.00 4.00 4.00	4.00 21.00 7.00 6.00	4.00 2.00 2.00 2.00

	15. Petrol & Lubricants	14.00	13.00	14.00	14.50	15.00
	16. Provident Fund & Contrs.	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	17. Hospitality Expenses	4.00	3.00	4.00	3.50	2.00
	18. Audit Fees	1.70	1.00	1.25	0.60	1.00
	19. Legal Expenses U/s.18(2)	1.00	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
	20.a) Research on Human Rights	23.50	11.50	30.00	16.50	20.00
	b) Training	24.50	25.00	37.00	60.00	65.00
	21. Other Contributions	47.00	46.00	40.00	51.00	55.00
	TOTAL B.	438.70	479.75	731.25	577.35	465.50
C.	CAPITAL EXPENDITURE
	1. Purchase of Motor Vehicles	0.00	0.00	0.00	21.00	22.00
	2.a) Purchase of Machinery & Equipment b) Purchase of Computer, Severs & Others IT Resources	5.00 40.00	18.00 24.00	14.50 40.00	7.00 5.50	2.00 2.00
	3. Purchase of Books & Publications	10.50	6.00	6.00	7.00	2.00
	4. Purchase of Furniture & Fixture	9.00	7.00	2.00	3.00	2.00
	5. Renovation a) Civil b) Electrical	0.00 0.00	0.00 0.00	0.00 0.00	0.00 0.00	0.00 0.00
	TOTAL C.	64.50	55.00	62.50	43.50	30.00
D.	LOANS & ADVANCES
	1. Motor Car/P.C. Advance	3.60	5.00	13.50	1.00	2.00
	2. Motor Cycle/Scooter Advance	1.10	3.50	1.50	0.30	1.00
	3. Bicycle/Fan	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.00	0.00
	4. HBA	5.00	0.00	2.00	0.00	0.00
	TOTAL D.	9.80	8.60	17.10	1.30	3.00
	TOTAL (NON-PLAN)	1228.00	1348.00	1651.00	1894.00	1911.00

PLAN

C.	6. Construction of Building (MAB)	400.00	0.00	100.00	50.00	2825.00
	7. Complaint Handling Management System (CHMS)	0.00	0.00	0.00	100.00	200.00
	TOTAL (Plan)	400.00	0.00	100.00	150.00	3025.00

NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

QUARTERLY STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE

FOR THE QUARTER ENDED MARCH, 2008

Rupees in Lakhs

Head of Accounts

Revised

EXPENDITURE DURING (QUARTER)

Progressive

No.

Estimates

Correspo- nding figure for the 4th Quarter

Ist

2nd

3rd

4th

Expenditure (5+6+7+8)

2007-2008

2006-2007

2007-2008

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

PAY & ALLOWANCES

1. Salaries

a) Chairperson & Members

31.00

3.64

9.48

7.77

7.76

4.76

29.77

b) Officer & Establishment

594.00

91.22

192.63

154.54

156.34

83.02

586.53

2. Wages

10.00

2.51

0.21

2.73

1.62

3.66

8.22

3. Prof. & Other Services

57.00

19.50

10.27

12.57

17.13

16.58

56.55

4. Overtime Allowance

6.00

1.29

1.17

1.38

1.09

2.35

5.99

5. Travel Expenses

a) Foreign Travel

60.50

40.61

7.08

18.35

26.64

8.07

60.14

b) Domestic Travel

38.00

10.80

13.84

4.77

9.57

9.11

37.29

6. Leave Travel Concession

15.00

5.91

2.54

0.17

5.13

4.84

12.68

7. Reimb. of Tuition Fee

0.65

0.08

0.29

0.05

0.01

0.09

0.44

8. Medical Expenses

28.00

14.04

1.53

4.50

2.04

19.02

27.09

Total A

840.15

189.60

239.04

206.83

227.33

151.50

824.70

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

ADMN. & OTHER EXP.

Seminar/Conferences

47.00

22.43

9.49

5.37

22.82

8.82

46.50

Assistance to Other Orgns.

0.00

-0.30

0.00

Telephone & Fax Expenses

27.00

4.54

6.82

5.32

7.43

5.82

25.39

Rent, Rates & Taxes

Newspaper & Periodicals

7.50

4.22

0.05

1.13

2.53

3.67

7.38

a) Advertisement

5.00

2.51

0.68

2.10

1.18

0.33

4.29

b) Publicity

25.50

5.46

0.63

0.42

7.45

16.56

25.06

Postage & Telegram

21.00

6.63

3.75

3.06

3.84

7.63

18.28

Liveries

0.50

2.97

0.00

0.07

Stationery & Printing a) Stationery

24.00

7.78

3.54

6.19

4.91

9.10

23.74

b) Printing

5.50

4.28

0.02

0.88

0.26

4.00

5.16

Publication

28.00

25.76

0.00

5.12

5.06

17.39

27.57

a) Office Expenses

45.50

14.91

3.18

7.59

13.40

21.31

45.48

b) Other Misc. Expenses

0.00

c) Exp. for promotion of Official Language (Hindi)

4.50

0.09

-0.02

0.15

0.68

2.76

3.57

a) Leave Salary & Pen. Cont. of deputationists

31.00

28.31

0.03

0.58

0.00

30.20

30.81

b) Pension Contribution of NHRC Employees

0.00

Water & Elect. Charges

45.00

7.92

10.93

15.24

9.70

8.08

43.95

Maintenance

a) Building (including Horticulture)

248.50

7.27

0.00

65.23

43.28

139.69

248.20

b) Vehicles

6.00

0.52

0.89

1.69

0.92

2.32

5.82

c)(i)Machinery & Equips.

25.00

5.14

0.54

4.66

6.47

12.54

24.21

(ii)Computer, Servers and Others IT Resources

4.00

1.85

0.00

0.81

1.32

1.09

3.22

d) Furniture & Fixtures

4.00

0.84

0.52

0.22

0.57

2.67

3.98

Petrol & Lubricants

14.00

3.50

1.90

3.19

3.30

4.37

12.76

Provident Fund & Cont.

0.00

Hospitality Expenses

4.00

0.99

0.81

0.46

0.80

0.95

3.02

Audit Fees

1.25

0.01

0.00

0.67

0.39

0.00

1.06

Legal Expenses - 18(2)

0.50

0.00

0.06

0.14

0.20

a) Research on Human Rights

30.00

1.75

2.64

2.62

2.91

19.46

27.63

b) Training

37.00

14.50

4.27

0.20

9.85

21.60

35.92

Other Contributions

40.00

0.00

39.48

0.00

39.48

Total B

731.25

173.88

50.67

132.90

188.61

340.57

712.75

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

CAPITAL EXPENDITURE

Purchase of Motor Vehicle

0.00

Purchase of

(a) Mach. & Equip.

14.50

11.90

1.30

1.36

0.15

11.45

14.26

(b) Computer, Servers & other IT Resources

40.00

13.17

0.00

1.60

0.87

35.81

38.28

Purchase of Books & Pubs

6.00

2.77

0.34

0.71

2.75

2.15

5.95

Purchase of Fur. & Fixs.

2.00

1.63

0.00

0.12

0.09

0.64

0.85

Renovation

a) Civil

0.00

b) Electrical

0.00

Total

62.50

29.47

1.64

3.79

3.86

50.05

59.34

LOANS & ADVANCES

1. Motor Car/P.C. Advance

13.50

2.03

0.72

2.45

0.00

9.95

13.12

2. Motor Cycle/Scooter Adv.

1.50

0.24

0.00

0.19

0.36

0.39

0.94

3. Bicycle/Fan Advance

0.10

0.00

0.02

0.00

0.02

4. House Building Advance

2.00

0.00

1.50

0.00

1.50

Total

17.10

2.27

0.72

2.66

1.86

10.34

15.58

TOTAL (NON-PLAN)

1651.00

395.22

292.07

346.18

421.66

552.46

1612.37

S.No.		Name & Designation		Address		Tel. No.
1.		Mr. Akhil Kumar Jain Secretary General		Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		2338 4856
2.		Shri Sunil Krishna Director General (Investigation)		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23385305
3.		Shri A.K. Garg Acting Registrar (Law)		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23382442
4.	Shri J.P. Meena Joint Secretary (P & A)		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23382263
5.	Mr. Chandra Kant Tyagi Presenting Officer		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23070275
6.	Mr. Pramod Kumar Chaturvedi Presenting Officer		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23382245
7.	Mr. R.K. Sharma Presenting Officer		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23382073
8.	Ms. P.N. Santhakumari Presenting Officer		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23386749
9.	Mr. Sudhir Chowdhary Deputy Inspector General		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23386532
10.	Dr. Sanjay Dubey Director (Adm.)		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23382389
11.	Shri Y.S.R. Murthy Director (Research)		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23382442
12.	Mr. M. L. Aneja Joint Registrar (Law)		Faridkot House Copernicus Marg, New Delhi		23382720

Name of the Post	No of Posts
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

S.#	Name of the Post	Scale of Pay
1.	Secretary General	Rs.26000/- fixed.
2.	Director General (Inv.)	Rs.24050-650-26000
3.	Registrar (Law)	Rs.22400-525-24500
4.	Joint Secretary & equivalent	Rs.18400-500-22400
5.	DIG	Rs.16400-450-20000
6.	Director & equivalent	Rs.14300-400-18300
7.	Deputy Registrar (Law) & equivalent	Rs.12000-375-16500
8.	Under Secretary/I.O./AR(Law) & equivalent	Rs.10000-325-15200
9.	Section Officer/PS & equivalent AIO/ Sr. Accounts Officer	Rs.6500-200-10500 Rs.8000-275-13500
10.	Assistant/Personal Assistant & equivalent	Rs.6500–200–10500/-
9.	Upper Division Clerk/ Stenographer &equivalent	Rs.4000–100–6000/-
10.	Lower Division Clerk/Staff Car Driver & equivalent	Rs.3050–75–3950–80–4590
11.	Daftary/Senior Peon & equivalent	Rs.2610–60–3150–65–4000
12.	Peon/Farash & equivalent	Rs.2550-55–2660–60–3200

RUPEES IN LAKHS

1. PAY & ALLOWANCES

CAPITAL EXPENDITURE

LOANS & ADVANCES

2. Motor Cycle/Scooter Advance

TOTAL (NON-PLAN)

6. Construction of Building (MAB)

TOTAL (Plan)