New Delhi 4th March 2006
Spreading Human Rights awareness among the common people in their language is vital for creating a culture of human rights. Unless people are aware about their human rights they cannot protect their human rights or seek redressal of its violation. The language of Human Rights Awareness literature, thus, should be simple enough to be understood by common people. NHRC, Chairperson Dr. Justice A.S.Anand said this at the concluding session of the two-day National Seminar in Hindi on the Concepts of Human Rights in Indian Culture & Importance of Human Rights Education in India, organized by the Commission in New Delhi on 2-3 March 2006. He said that all religions are inspired in there own way by an innate concept of Human Rights. He emphasized that rights and duties are interlinked. While rights without duties lead to arrogance, duties without rights lead to slavery. Hence, there is a need to maintain balance between rights and duties.
Dr. Justice A.S.Anand, Chairperson, NHRC also gave away awards to the winners of the creative writing competition on Human Rights in Hindi organized by the National Human Rights Commission. Smt. Pushpa Sinha has been adjudged the first prize winner in the category for the best original work in Hindi. The Second prize has gone to Shri Satya Narayan Sabat, while the third prize has been awarded to Dr. R.C.Mishra.
These bi-annual awards were instituted by NHRC in 1998 in order to promote original writings in Hindi on various subjects pertaining to human rights and are in two categories. The first category is for best original work in Hindi with the first prize carrying a cash award of Rs. 25,000/-, the second prize carrying a sum of Rs.20,000/- and third prize of Rs. 15,000/-. The second category is for translation into Hindi of standard books on Human Rights written in English or in any of the regional languages of India. The prize money being Rs.15,000/-, Rs.10,000/- and Rs.7,500/- for the first, second and third prizes respectively. No entry was considered suitable for awards in the translation category for the year 2004-05.
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