The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Government of Odisha to make welfare schemes and basic amenities available to 1,902 families, many of them displaced by different projects in Koraput and Keonjhar districts.
It was a rare occasion when the NHRC disposed close to 2,000 applications in a single session in the presence of the Chief Secretary of Odisha, six other departmental heads, and the Collectors of the two districts.
Human rights lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy had moved the NHRC with 2,601 petitions highlighting welfare schemes that were not being availed by people on November 25, 2011.
