MHA's panel to look into 'racial-discrimination' faced by North-Eastern people
The Center has set up a three-member committee for monitoring and redressal of grievances relating to alleged racial discrimination faced by North Eastern people. The committee has been established following an order of Supreme Court after a writ petition was filed in the wake of a series of attacks on them, including the death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh, Nido Tania, in Delhi.
Who are the members of the panel?
According to an order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the committee comprises Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary (Northeast), Alana Golmei, Secretary, Northeast Support Center, New Delhi, and Mizum Nyodu, Assistant Professor, Law Faculty, Delhi University.
North Eastern people can send their complaints or grievances
Any person hailing from the Northeast who claim to have faced any act of racial abuse, racial atrocities, racial violence, racial discrimination in any part of the country, can send their complaints, suggestions or grievances at a designated e-mail: ne.complaints@mha.gov.in In its order, the apex court had said the panel would be given powers for ensuring strict action in incidents of racial discrimination.
Bezbaruah panel was set up by Home Ministry
The court had also told the government that the effective monitoring mechanism suggested by MP Bezbaruah Committee in its report should be implemented and "should not like innumerable instances of its ilk, languish in dusty shelves of long-forgotten archives". The Bezbaruah panel was set up by Home Ministry on February 5, 2014, to suggest "suitable remedial measures" which could be taken in such cases.
