“Ignite thoughts, constructively use time and be the custodians of planet Earth,” exhorts NHRC Chairperson, Mr. Arun Mishra inaugurating the Commission’s flagship Online Short Term Internship Programme

New Delhi, 21st February, 2022

Mr. Justice Arun Mishra, Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission, NHRC India urged the students to value and constructively use time, adding that “time is a perishable commodity”, to become better citizens and hence paying back the debts to the motherland by being custodians of the planet Earth. He was inaugurating the Commission’s flagship 15 days online short internship programme.

Justice Mishra pressed on the fact that not only litigation but provision of entitlement and ameliorative measures for the upliftment of poor and down-trodden would ensure justice in its true sense. The students, who have an immense caliber of leading the country in the future, should think in terms of being a helping hand during hours of distress providing equal justice irrespective of any differences.

Justice Mishra, pointing at the fast paced changing times, encouraged the students to constructively use the means of cyber space. He nudged that the cyber space can be used to enhance knowledge but cautioned the impending apparent dangers.

Exhorting the students to orient themselves to finding solutions to various problems being faced by the people in the country, Justice Mishra said that they should strive to make the best use of these interactive sessions by eminent experts on different aspects of human rights.

Seventy four student interns from across the country are participating in the online internship. NHRC Member, Mr. Rajiv Jain Secretary General, Mr. Bimbadhar Pradhan, and Joint Secretary, Mrs. Anita Sinha, also addressed the interns on the occasion in the presence of NHRC Member, Mr. Justice M.M. Kumar, Mrs. Jyotika Kalra, Registrar (L), Mr. Surajit Dey, DG (I), Mr. Santosh Mehra and other senior officers of the Commission.

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