Remaining without a Chairperson for five years had made the State Human Rights Commission almost a dead entity. It is rather unbelievable that in a State of the Indian Union which is forced into extraordinary conditions owing to twenty-seven year long armed insurgency and militancy has remained with an almost dysfunctional Human Rights Commission. Responsibility lies with the State Government. We are happy that Bilal Nazki, the retired Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, and a son of the soil, has been appointed as the new Chairperson. When the press met him, he very frankly said that after taking up the new assignment he will try to educate himself on the situation prevailing in the State in connection with human rights and then only would he be in a position of saying what he would attempt to do to streamline delivery of justice to the aggrieved people. However, it is evident that the SHRC has the duty of bringing awareness to the people about what the human rights are and how to protect these for the people. Some people have many misgivings about human rights and think that even the small matters of administrative nature also fall under the ambit of human rights. It is not so always and as such hopefully the SHRC may develop a mechanism of bringing awareness about human rights to the people at large.
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