SHILLONG: The State Selection Committee has allotted more time to the Political Department to search for the second member of the Meghalaya Human Rights Commission.
The Meghalaya Human Rights Commission currently has Justice (retd) Aftab H. Saikia as the chairman and PJP Hanaman as a member. The search for the second member is still on.
Speaking to media persons after the meeting of the Selection Committee here on Thursday, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said the Committee had a look at the various profiles for the post of the member of the Commission.
However, the Committee now has asked the Political Department to take more time as out of the two profiles presented before the committee, only one qualified for the post of the member of the rights panel.
Reacting to a query on the rights panel functioning from Guwahati, the Chief Minister said the department has scouted available spaces and would soon take a final decision on the permanent office of the Commission.
Sangma also said the website of the Meghalaya Human Rights Commission is under construction and that complaints can be filed online after the site is ready.
After the Supreme Court set the June 30 deadline for the State to form the human rights panel, the Political Department had on June 7 notified the human rights body. However, there was a defect in the order of the department as it was the Governor who had to approve the formation of the rights panel. (Contd on P-10)
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(Contd from P-5) Subsequently, the file related to the matter was sent to the Governor who, on July 4, approved the constitution of the Meghalaya State Human Rights Commission.
