The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (‘MCA’) on 1st June 2016 notified the constitution of National Company Law Tribunal (‘NCLT’) and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (‘NCLAT’) in exercise of powers conferred under §408 and §410 of the Companies Act 2013 (‘Companies Act‘). This notification has been in abeyance for almost 14 years since it was first introduced by the Companies (Second Amendment) Act 2002 based on the recommendations of Eradi committee. However, in recent times the Government of India has been emphasising on easing the process of carrying out business in India. Thus, in recent times, various legal reforms have been carried out and the constitution of the NCLT and the NCALT is one more step in this direction.

The newly setup NCLT will, initially, have 11 benches including two benches in the national capital, New Delhi. Retired Supreme Court judge Hon’ble Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya will be the first Chairperson of NCLAT and Retired Justice MM Kumar will be the first President of the NCLT.

The constitution of the NCLT is likely to have a fundamental impact as far as company law litigation is concerned. Some of the more important consequences of this development are enumerated below:

1. Single Window: The most significant benefit likely to arise from the constitution of the NCLT and the NCLAT is that the tribunals will, effectively, act as a single window for settlement of all company law related disputes. The newly constituted tribunals will replace the existing Company Law Board (‘CLB’), the Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (‘BIFR’) and its appellate authority. Thus, the unnecessary fragmentation and multiplicity of the proceedings before various courts and tribunals in the same matter will be now be curbed.
   
   The constitution of the NCLT is in consonance with the recently enacted Insolvency and Bankruptcy code and the liquidation process of companies and corporate debtors will now be considerably simplified.
   
   Further, in the previous regime most powers were reserved either for the Central Government, the CLB or the High Courts. However, with the formation of the NCLT, the intent is to consolidate these powers and jurisdiction and assign them to a single authority, thereby simplifying the dispute adjudication process as far as companies are concerned.
2. Class Action Claims: Shareholders are allowed to file class action suits before the NCLT, against the company for the breach of provisions of the Companies Act. Per this provision, if 100 or more shareholders or depositors find that the company’s affairs are not being managed in its best interests, they may approach the NCLT. In a class action suit, shareholders can collectively sue directors or auditors of the company for their misconduct or unwarranted acts. This remedy will be crucial for the minority shareholders who seek redressal against arbitrary/oppressive decisions of their management.  In addition, with the increase of shareholder activism in India such a remedy would be a valuable remedy in the hands of shareholders against their boards.
3. Greater Field Impact: Under the old law, the CLB was operating through only 5 benches. However, the NCLT will commence with 11 benches, with the Principal Bench being in New Delhi. This will undoubtedly aid in ensuring a wider reach for adjudicating company law matters in India.
4. Speedy Disposal of Cases: The NCLT has been given the powers to regulate its own procedure which will assist them in disposing matters in a simplified manner. Further, the NCLT and the NCLAT are under a mandate to dispose of cases before them as expeditiously as possible. In this context, a time limit of 3 months has been provided to dispose of cases, with an extension of 90 days for sufficient reasons to be recorded by the President or the Chairperson, as the case maybe. This time limit is expected to ensure the speedy disposal of cases by the NCLT and the NCLAT.
5. Limitations and Unanswered Questions: The notification does not expressly specify the manner or procedure for transferring pending cases from the CLB and High Courts to the NCLT. It is likely the process of transfer will be commenced and implemented as a gradual process. The objective may be to transfer the matters to the new body in a gradual manner, so as to give the NCLT ample amount of time to structure itself in the company law litigation of the country. However, effective steps will need to be taken to prevent unnecessary confusion amongst litigants.
   
   In addition, provisions relating to the winding up of the companies and those under Chapter XV of the Companies Act have not yet been notified. Therefore, these matters will continue to be governed by the provisions of Companies Act 1956. There is no updated information available in terms of when the provision of Chapter XV are likely to be brought into force.

After the sc has declared right to privacy is fundamental right then how can it laws in the country be full operative and meet its objectives in last few years threre has been several cases related to the right to privacy and one of the most eminent is adhar card issue .

A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court pronounced this verdict on Thursday morning of  24 aug 2017 .It was a unanimous decision with all the nine judges in favour of the Right to Privacy. The constitutional bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar ruled that “right to privacy is an intrinsic part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty under Article 21 and entire Part III of the Constitution.”

the judgement certainly gives incentives to work towards a strong data privacy policy. “There will be a need to set up appropriate and detailed standards of care regarding what is done with your data and how it is used. There is already a Data Protection Bill in consideration. Legislation will be required to implement the fundamental rights, so that in the future even private parties are subjected to regulation.

What privacy includes

Preservation of personal intimacies, the sanctity of family life, marriage, procreation, home and sexual orientation.

A right to be left alone.

Safeguards individual autonomy, recognises the ability of the individual to control vital aspects of his or her life.

Personal choices governing a way of life are intrinsic to privacy.

Protection of heterogeneity and recognition of plurality and diversity of our culture.

——. Privacy is not surrendered when a person is in public place

By being in public place doesn’t mean an individual has surrendered privacy, even as the legitimate expectation of privacy may vary from the intimate zone to the private zone and from the private to the public arena.

Privacy attaches to the person since it is an essential facet of the dignity of the human being

——- What Right to Privacy doesn’t mean

Not an absolute right: Like other rights which form part of the fundamental freedoms protected by Part III, including the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21, privacy is not an absolute right.

——Can law/state encroach upon privacy?

According to SC, a law which encroaches upon privacy will have to withstand the touchstone of permissible restrictions on fundamental rights.

In the context of Article 21, an invasion of privacy must be justified on the basis of a law which stipulates a procedure which is fair, just and reasonable.

The law must also be valid with reference to the encroachment on life and personal liberty under Article 21.

An invasion of life or personal liberty must meet the three-fold requirement of (i) legality, which postulates the existence of law; (ii) need, defined in terms of a legitimate state aim; and (iii) proportionality which ensures a rational nexus between the objects and the means adopted to achieve them; and

—— Privacy has both positive and negative content.

The negative content of privacy restrains the state from committing an intrusion upon the life and personal liberty of a citizen.

Positive content of the right to privacy imposes an obligation on the state to take all necessary measures to protect the privacy of the individual.

——-Robust regime needed for data protection

Informational privacy is a facet of the right to privacy. The court observed that dangers to privacy in an age of information can originate not only from the state but from non-state actors as well. The Union Government, hence, needs to examine and put into place a robust regime for data protection. The creation of such a regime would require a careful and sensitive balance between individual interests and legitimate concerns of the state.

—— For what reasons state can encroach upon individual’s privacy?

According to the judgement, the legitimate aims of the state should be “protecting national security, preventing and investigating crime, encouraging innovation and the spread of knowledge, and preventing the dissipation of social welfare benefits.” These matters should be considered by the Union government while designing the regime for the protection of the data.

How the IT laws be improved —

India’s existing data privacy framework dates only to the year 2009, introduced to address growing concern relating to ‘data protection’ and ‘data privacy’. This framework was primarily introduced through Sections 43-A and 72-A of the Information Technology Act 2000. Subsequently, the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011 were issued. These regulate the collection, disclosure, transfer and storage of sensitive personal data and information.

Unfortunately, the above-mentioned legislative framework does not extend to government agencies, and also stops short of imposing an obligation upon the data collector to mandatorily report any data compromises to data subjects. Further, it imposes a stiff requirement to establish intent to cause wrongful gain or loss before an enforceable remedy against a data breach would be available to data subjects.

A well-functioning data privacy regime should ideally set the rules of the game for all actors, cut out any regulatory uncertainty and strike a balance between protecting the right of privacy of data subjects with the business needs of data collectors.

In 2012, the AP Shah report studied global best practices with a view to rebooting the existing domestic framework; it identified transparency, consent, and accountability as the fundamental building blocks of the ideal data protection regime. The report also observed that any new data privacy framework must aim to harmonise principles such as the principle of notice, choice and consent, limitation on collection and purpose, disclosure, openness, security, and accountability. These would also be relevant today.

Moreover, with technology constantly evolving, an approach based on standards would enable the law to keep pace with rapid changes in technology, as against objective rules that would fail to be relevant with constant technological developments.

Perhaps the biggest shift required from the existing regime is with respect to its applicability. It is imperative to bring government agencies within the ambit of the new framework. Although drafting a legislation that is applicable to both the private sector and the Government alike is a daunting task, it may be a streamlined method of ensuring that data subjects are adequately safeguarded.

While ‘consent’ is the cornerstone of any data privacy regime, the adequacy of such consent from the data subjects is sometimes debatable, especially in the context of standard-form contracts such as click wrap agreements. Recent studies show that this problem has been exacerbated manifold; people are often forced to accept unfavourable terms of service since most apps are designed to quit immediately if one does not click on the ‘I agree’ button.

Behavioural research also points to the inability of data subjects to manage their own data. This is attributed to a combination of lack of understanding and general disinclination.

To counter this, researchers have argued that perhaps regulating only the collection of data may not be enough, its use by data collectors and data processors could also be regulated such that there is a prohibition on using certain data in a manner that is detrimental to data subjects. This could be a useful supplement to temper the current prior consent-based approach where data subjects often surrender their data without truly understanding the wider ramifications of exploitation of such data.

Several stops and starts and multiple draft privacy Bills later, the Government has now taken the step to constitute a committee under Justice (Retd) BN Srikrishna to suggest and draft a new data protection Bill. While the Supreme Court continues to deliberate whether the right to privacy should be elevated to a separate fundamental right, a robust and well-functioning data privacy legislation will go a long way in complementing the constitutional right to privacy in not only creating the right incentives for all stakeholders but also providing an efficient redress mechanism for data subjects.

Know the basics first: What is mean by company, the private company and public company?

In India, there are about 7 lacks registered companies and every month thousands of firms apply for registration. company is a legal entity; According to Section 3 of companies act company means a legal entity formed and registered under Companies Act 1956. Under the ministry of corporate affairs, every company is to be registered by the registrar of companies for the state. This act maintains two types of companies called private and public companies. The ‘Limited’ is the most commonly used corporate form at the end of the company name. First you need to know what are these public and private companies and decide how you want your company to get registered.

When it comes to company registration, Every firm will have following two options:

Private company

Public company

Lets start the registration procedure: 4 Steps

Step 1: Acquire Director Identification Number(DIN)

This is the first process in registration that each director of the company should obtain their identification number. As per the amendment act 2006, acquiring a DIN  is compulsory for every director i.e. as such every existing and intending directors have to obtain their DIN. To get DIN one need to file a eForm DIN-1. The DIN-1 form is available on Official site of the ministry of corporate affairs

Register yourself on mca website  first and have a login id. After filling DIN-1 Form, one should upload the filled form by clicking to eForm upload button on MCA website and should pay applicable fees.

After getting generated DIN one should intimate their company about DIN. The director can intimate their company about DIN 

Then company should intimate the Registrar of Corporates(ROC) about all director’s DIN

If there is any change in DIN or need for any updation  like change of address, personal details etc, then director should intimate this change by submitting the eForm

Step 2: Acquire Digital Signature Certificate(DSC):

In order to ensure the security or authenticity of documents filed electronically the information act 200o demands a valid digital signature on the documents submitted electronically. This is the only and safest way that one can submit their documents electronically. The digital signature certificate should be acquired by only those agencies which are appointed by the controller of certification agencies (CCA). One should not use DSC given by any other agency which is not approved and it’s illegal to use others DSC as yours or the false one.

If you already have a digital signature then you can use the same, no need to apply for another. But do check for your digital signature validity, agencies issue DSC’s with one or two year validity after expiry you have to renew it.

One can acquire his/her Digital Signature certificates  from these government listed agencies like TCS, IDBRT, MTNL, SAFESCRYPT, NIC, nCODE Solutions etc. to check out their price details of these Govt approved agencies

Step 3: Create a account on MCA Portal – New user registration

This is about having a registered user account on MCA Portal for filing a eForm, for online fee payment, for different transactions as registered and business user. Creating an account is totally free of cost. To register yourself on the MCA portal, click on the register link.

Step 4: Apply for the company to be registered.

This is the final major step in a registration of your company which includes incorporating company name, Registering the office address or notice of situation of office and notice for appointment of company directors, manager and secretary. And also regarding the take and pay for their qualification shares.

Form-1:

Form-1A: Application form for availability or change of a company name. Once you apply for new company name, the MCA will suggest four different form of your company name; you have to choose one among them. To do the same you have you have to fill Form-1A and submit.

Form-1: This is for application or declaration for incorporation of a company, in this form you have to fill the same name which you have chosen during application of form-1A.

Form-18:

This form is for notice of the situation of a new company office or change of situation of previously registered office.

For a new company you have to fill the form with genuine office address and submit.

Form-32:

For a new company, this form is for notice for appointment of new Directors, Managers and Secretary.

For an existing company, this form is for a change of directors, Manger, Secretary or company head.

After submitting these forms, once the application has been approved by MCA, you will receive a confirmation email regarding the application for incorporation of a new company, and the status of the form will get changed to Approved.

Detailed procedure for approval of the proposed company name:

For obtaining name for your new company, An application in Form-1A needs to be filed with the Registrar of Companies (ROC) of the state in which the Registered Office of the proposed Company is to be situated to ascertain the availability of a name along with an official service fee of Rs.500/-.

You have to provide four alternative names for the proposed company. Your company name shall not resemble the name of any other company already registered or violate the provisions according to Act, 1950.

In this form you have to fill name and addresses of directors (minimum 2 for a private company and 7 for a public company). You have to mention main objects of the company and authorized capital.

In about 10 days, the ROC will inform you about approval or objections. If there are any objections then ROC will suggest you with some available names and let you choose among them. If your company name is approved then you will receive a formal letter regarding the confirmation of the same. Keep the same which will be required during registration process of the proposed company.

If you find any difficulty or encounter any problem while obtaining the company name then do contact us, We will help you to sort out your problem.

Check these documents before submission of a company:

DIN of all those directors of a proposed company.

DSC – Digital Signature Certificate

Original copy the of formal letter issued by ROC regarding availability of Company name.

Form-1 for incorporation of a company.

Form-18 for situation or address of the proposed company.

Form-32 for particulars of proposed directors, managers and secretary.

Formalities to be followed while incorporation of a company:

Obtain a TAN card

Obtain a Permanent account number (PAN) from income tax dept. India

If required: Documents obeying shop and establishment acts.

If required: For foreign trade, Registration documents of import export code from Director General of foreign trade.

If required: Registration documents of Software technologies Parks of India (STPI).

If required: RBI approval for foreign companies investing in India and FIPB approval.

Both Indian and foreign directors need to have valid Digital Signature Certificates from authorized agencies.

> bills: in a very simple term or say in a lay man languane it could be defined as “A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature. A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature and, in most cases, approved by the executive. Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an act of the legislature, or a statute.

> a bill is neccessery because to control the vast country effectively and because of dynamic nature of the society this because to control the huge population through imposing the law for better functioning of the country

> Types of Bills Introduced in the Indian Parliament

> Bills introduced in the Indian Parliament can be classified into 4 types of bills. They are as follows:

> 1. Money Bills

> 2. Financial Bills

> 3. Ordinary Bills

> 4. Constitutional Amendment Bills

> lets talk about how it could be introduced ;character and procedure of different types of bills:

> 1. money bills : These are defined in Article 110. These Bills deal with the taxes, borrowings, consolidated and contingency funds, audit and accounting, etc.

> Article 109 of Indian Constitution gives special procedure regarding Money Bills.

> A money Bill can originate only in Lok Sabha after the recommendations of the President. Through the Bill is sent to Rajya Sabha also but even Rajya Sabha rejects/returns the Bill (within days necessarily), the Bill is deemed to be passed.

> The Appropriation Bill and Annual Financial Bill (Budget) are Money Bills.

                 Power to decide whether a Bill is a Money Bill or not

> Article 110 (3) of the Constitution of India lays down that “if any question arises whether a Bill is a Money Bill or not, the decision of the Speaker of the House of the People thereon shall be final”.  It is the Speaker of the Lok Sabha who decides whether a Bill is a Money Bill or not. Further, once the Speaker has certified a Bill as a Money Bill, its nature cannot be questioned in a court of law, in the Houses of Parliament, or even by the President.

> Procedure for Passing of the Money Bills

> A money bill can be introduced / originated only in Lok Sabha {or in legislative assembly in case of bicameral legislature in states}.

> A money bill can be introduced only on prior recommendations of the President {or governor in case of state}

> Once a money bill is passed in Lok Sabha, it is transmitted to Rajya Sabha for its consideration. But Rajya Sabha has limited powers in this context. It can neither reject nor amend the money bill. It can make only recommendations and has to return the bill with or without recommendations to Lok Sabha in 14 days.

> The Lok Sabha may or may not accept the recommendations of Rajya Sabha. Whether or not accepted those recommendations, thus returned bill is considered passed in both houses.

> If Rajya Sabha does not return the bill in 14 days, it is deemed to have been passed by both the houses at the expiration of the 14 days in the form in which it was passed by the Lok Sabha.

> President can withhold assent to money bill but cannot return it for reconsideration of the Lok Sabha.

> Whether there can be a joint sitting of both the Houses in case of Money Bill

> There cannot be a joint sitting of both the Houses in case of money bills.

> 2. financial bills : Any Bill dealing with revenues or expenditure but not certified as Money Bill by the Speaker is a Financial Bill.

> Financial Bill can only be introduced in Lok Sabha on the recommendations of the President & should be passed by both Houses of Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha) by Simple majority.

> The proposals of the government for levy of new taxes, modification of the existing tax structure or continuance of the existing tax structure beyond the period approved by Parliament are submitted to Parliament through this bill.

> The Finance Bill is accompanied by a Memorandum containing explanations of the provisions included in it. The Finance Bill can be introduced only in Lok Sabha.

> However, the Rajya Sabha can recommend amendments in the Bill. The bill has to be passed by the Parliament within 75 days of its introduction.

> 3.Ordinary Bills : Ordinary bills are concerned with any matter other than Financial Bills, money Bills and Constitutional Amendment Bills.

> Such Bills can be introduced in either House of Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha) without the recommendations of President of India. These bills are passed by Simple Majority in both Houses.

> 4:  Constitutional Amendment Bills : Under Article 368 of Indian Constitution with the powers of parliament to amend the constitution, this bill can be introduced in any of the two Houses without recommendations of the President.

> Such Bills must be passed by each house (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) separately with a special majority (two third of the members present and voting which must be more than absolute majority).

> By 24th Constitution amendment Act, 1971 it is obligatory for the president to give his assent to the Constitutional Amendment Bills.

Human rights are inherent to all human beings, regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. They cannot be given or taken away.

Human rights are the foundation for freedom, justice and peace in the world.

They have been formally and universally recognised by all countries in the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Since then, many treaties have been adopted by states to reaffirm and guarantee these rights legally.

International human rights law sets out the obligations of states to respect, to protect and to fulfil human rights for all. These obligations impose specific duties upon states, regardless of their political, economic and cultural systems.

All human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated (Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,

Equality and non-discrimination are cross-cutting principles in international human rights law that guarantee the full enjoyment of human rights to everyone.

he right to education ensures access to quality schools and to an education that is directed towards the full development of the human personality. NESRI uses six priority human rights principles in our work that are fundamental to guaranteeing the right to education and are of particular relevance to education reform efforts in the United States:

Individual Rights: Every individual child must have equal access to a quality education adapted to meet his or her needs.

Aims of Education: The aims of education must be directed toward the development of each child’s personality and full potential, preparing children to participate in society and to do work that is rewarding and reasonably remunerative, and to continue learning throughout life.

Dignity: Schools must respect the inherent dignity of every child creating an environment of respect and tolerance in the classroom, preventing practices and disciplinary policies that cause harm or humiliation to children, and promoting self-confidence and self-expression.

Equity: There must be equitable distribution of resources in education across communities according to need.

Non-Discrimination: The government must ensure that the human right to education “will be exercised without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”

Participation: Students, parents and communities have the right to participate in decisions that affect their schools and the right to education.

The Right to Education is protected by:

• Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Articles 13 & 14 of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights 

• Articles 28,29 & 40 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child 

• Article 5 of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

• Articles 10 & 14 of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

• Article 12 of American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man

 ROLE OF NATIONAL HUMANRIGHTS COMMISON :

NHRC was constituted under Section 3 of the 1993 Act for better protection of human rights. The term ‘human rights’ is defined in Section 2(d) of the 1993 Act, which reads as follows:

“2. (d) “Human rights” means the rights relating to life, liberty, equality and dignity of the individual guaranteed by the Constitution or embodied in the International Covenants and enforceable by courts in India.”

• It is autonomous i.e. it has been created by an Act of Parliament.
• NHRC is committed to provide independent views on issues within the parlance of the Constitution or in law for the time being enforced for the protection of human rights. The Commission takes an  independent stand.
• NHRC has the powers of a civil court.
• Authority to grant interim relief
• Authority to recommend payment of compensation or damages
• Over seventy thousand complaints received every year reflects the credibility of the Commission and the trust reposed in it by the citizens.
• NHRC has a very wide mandate
• NHRC has unique mechanism with which it also monitors implementation of its various recommendations.

ROLE OF UN 

The United Nations (UN) system has two main types of bodies to promote and protect human rights: Charter Bodies and Treaty Bodies.

Charter Bodies are established under the UN Charter in order to fulfil the UNs general purpose of promoting human rights. They have broad mandates that cover promoting human rights in all UN member states.

The Human Rights Council

The principal UN Charter Body responsible for human rights is the Human Rights Council (HRC). The General Assembly established the HRC in 2006, in the hope that it would be more efficient and effective than its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission. Forty-seven UN member states sit on the HRC. One of its main purposes is to review the human rights record of every UN member state once every four years and to make recommendations for improvement. Australia is not currently a member of the Human Rights Council.

Office Of The United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights

The Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), a department of the United Nations Secretariat was established following the World Conference on Human Rights in 1993. Its role is to prevent human rights violations and secure respect for human rights by promoting international cooperation and coordinating the United Nations’ human rights activities. The OHCHR conducts a very broad range of activities from is headquarters in Geneva. It also works directly in areas where there are severe human rights violations though field offices and as part of UN peace missions.

Treaty Bodies have responsibility for monitoring and promoting compliance with a particular human rights treaty. As such they are only concerned with countries that are a party to that treaty.

A number of human rights treaties have established treaty-monitoring bodies to supervise the implementation of treaty obligations by State Parties:

• the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination monitors State Parties compliance with ICERD;
• the Human Rights Committee monitors State Parties compliance with the ICCPR;
• the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights monitors State Parties compliance with the ICESCR;
• the Committee against Torture monitors State Parties compliance with CAT;
• the Committee on Migrant Workers monitors State Parties compliance with the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families;
• the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women monitors State Parties compliance with CEDAW; and
• the Committee on the Rights of the Child monitors State Parties compliance with the CRC.

Treaty Bodies consider reports from State Parties on their compliance with the treaty and some treaty bodies can receive individual complaints of treaty body violations.

Reporting obligations and monitoring

Treaty Bodies consider periodic reports from States parties about the measures they have adopted to carry out their obligations under each treaty.

When Treaty Bodies assess reports from State Parties they may also consider information contained in ‘shadow reports’. Shadow reports are those submitted to the Treaty Bodies by NGOs and National Human Rights Institutions (rather than government).

After considering the reports, Treaty Bodies make recommendations (often called Concluding Comments or Recommendations) about how the State Party can improve its compliance with its treaty obligations.

Individual complaints

Some Treaty Bodies have additional powers to receive and consider complaints from individuals who allege they are the victims of human rights violations by the State. The bodies with the power to hear individual complaints are:

• the Human Rights Committee;
• the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination;
• the Committee against Torture; and
• the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

A finding of a Treaty Body that a State Party has violated a person’s human rights under the treaty is not legally binding.

Individuals can only make complaints to Treaty Bodies if they have exhausted all domestic remedies and if the relevant State Party has recognised the competence of the Treaty Body to hear their complaint.

By ratifying the ICERD, the CAT and the First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, Australia has recognised the competence of Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Committee against Torture and the Human Rights Committee to hear individual complaints about violations of the relevant treaty provisions.

The United Nations is currently considering proposals to reform the treaty bodies and make reporting obligations easier for States, by establishing a single, unified Treaty Body to monitor implementation of all the principal human rights treaties.

COMMITTEE REPRESENTATION

UN Treaty Bodies are committees of experts in the relevant area who serve in their personal capacity, not as representatives of their countries. Emeritus Professor Ivan Shearer and Elizabeth Evatt, former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, are two examples of recent Australian representatives.

Other UN organs that do important human rights work include:

• UN High Commissioner for Refugees
• Commission on the Status of Women
• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
• UNAIDS.

NATIONAL COMMISION FOR WOMEN

The objective of the NCW is to represent the rights of women in India and to provide a voice for their issues and concerns. The subjects of their campaigns have included dowry, politics, religion, equal representation for women in jobs, and the exploitation of women for labour. They have also discussed police abuses against women.^[4]

The commission regularly publishes a monthly newsletter, Rashtra Mahila in both Hindi and English.^[5]they also fight against the problems of women for progress and happiness

Controversies

Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code

In December 2006 and January 2007, the NCW found itself at the center of a minor controversy over its insistence that Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code not be changed to make adulterous wives equally prosecutable by their husbands.

But the grounds on which Ms. Vyas resists the logic of making this a criminal offence — particularly for women, as often recommended — are not as encouraging. She is averse to holding the adulterous woman equally culpable as the adulterous man because women, she believes, are never offenders. They are always the victims.

The NCW has demanded that women should not be punished for adultery, as a woman is “the victim and not an offender” in such cases. They have also advocated the amendment of Section 198 of the CrPC to allow women to file complaints against unfaithful husbands and prosecute them for their promiscuous behaviour. This was in response to “loopholes” in the Indian Penal code that allowed men to file adultery charges against other men who have engaged in illicit relations but does not allow women to file charges against their husbands.

The Commission has also worked to guarantee women security in unconventional relationships.

Mangalore pub attack controversy

 2009 Mangalore pub attack

The NCW came under sharp criticism for their response to the attack by forty male members of the Hindu right-wing Sri Ram Sena on eight women in a bar in Mangalore in late January 2009. Video from the attack shows the women were punched, pulled by their hair, and thrown out of the pub.

NCW member Smt Nirmala Venkatesh was sent to assess the situation, and said in an interview that the pub did not have adequate security and that the women should have protected themselves. Venkatesh said, “If the girls feel they were not doing anything wrong why are they afraid to come forward and give a statement? On 6 February, the NCW said they decided not to accept Venkatesh’s report but would not be sending a new team to Mangalore. On 27 February, The Prime Minister’s Office approved the removal of Nirmala Venkatesh on disciplinary grounds.

Guwahati molestation controversy

The NCW came under fire again after the molestation of a 17-year-old girl by a gang of men outside a pub in Guwahati on 9 July 2012. NCW member Alka Lamba was accused of leaking the name of the minor victim to the media, and was subsequently removed from the fact-finding committee, though she remains a member of the commission. The following week, NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma made comments suggesting that women “be careful how you dress”, which invited criticism that she was guilty of victim blaming. The controversy led activists to call for a restructuring of the commission.

Sex trafficking is a grave violation of human rights and a form of violence against women and children

Sex trafficking violates women’s right to life, liberty and security of person. The fundamental individual right to life, liberty and security of person is reflected in Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

The Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará), Chapter II, Article 3 provides for the right of women to be free from violence within both the public and private spheres, specifically listing “trafficking in persons” as a form of violence against women regardless of whether it involves the knowledge or acquiescence of state agents. 

Sex trafficking is often referred to as modern-day slavery.  Many countries have ratified various international conventions that create obligations to prohibit slavery and slavery-like practices.  While some sex trafficking situations may not involve the permanent ownership historically associated with slavery, they can involve exploitation and deprivations of liberty that render the situation tantamount to slavery. Slavery-like practices that can manifest in sex trafficking situations, including servitude, forced labor, debt bondage, and forced marriages, are also prohibited.(See also the section on Forced and Child Marriage in this module)

Some acts of sex trafficking involve conduct that can be understood as a form of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, which is prohibited under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), Article 5 of the UDHR and Article 7 of the ICCPR, and has attained the status of a jus cogens norm. The failure to protect women from sex trafficking also represents a failure to ensure women’s right to equal protection under the law. This is a well-enshrined principle of international law.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 35 states that “States Parties shall take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent the abduction of, the sale of or traffic in children for any purpose or in any form.”

CASES OF HUMAN RIGHT VOILATION

AFGANISHTAN

Fighting between the Taliban and government forces in Afghanistan escalated in 2015, with the Taliban seizing control of Kunduz and holding the city for nearly two weeks before Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), with United States air and ground support, regained control. The Taliban also seized a number of district centers and threatened other provincial capitals. The United Nations deemed nearly half of the country’s provinces as being at high or extreme risk. 

The upsurge in violence had devastating consequences for civilians, with suicide bombings, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and targeted attacks by the Taliban and other insurgents causing 70 percent of all civilian casualties. The number of civilians killed during government military operations, particularly ground offensives, increased too.

While both President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah publicly affirmed the government’s commitment to human rights, their National Unity Government (NUG) failed to address longstanding concerns, including violations of women’s rights and attacks on journalists. The government launched an action plan to curb torture and enacted legislation criminalizing the recruitment of child soldiers, but impunity for both continued.

Parliamentary and provincial elections scheduled for 2015 were postponed indefinitely pending contested electoral reforms. More people became internally displaced due to conflict than in any previous year since 2002; the 100,000 new IDPs in 2015 brought the nationwide total to almost 1 million.

Targeted attacks on civilians by the Taliban also increased in 2015. In statements released in April and May, the Taliban vowed to kill government officials, specifically judges, prosecutors, and employees of the Ministry of Justice. The Taliban also identified Afghans and foreigners working for aid organizations as targets, a policy that helped make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country for humanitarian aid workers.

The UN also reported a significant increase in attacks against schools between April and June, mostly by the Taliban. Threats from both pro-government militias and insurgents led to school closures in Kunduz, Ghor, and Nuristan. In May, Afghanistan endorsed the global Safe Schools Declaration, thus committing to do more to protect students, teachers, and schools during times of armed conflict, including through implementing the Guidelines on Protecting Schools from Military Use.

Early in the year, the new Ghani administration publicly affirmed its commitment to preserving and enhancing protections for women’s rights. However, the government failed to take steps to improve enforcement of the Elimination of Violence against Women Law (EVAW) and to stop prosecutions of so-called moral crimes, which lead to imprisonment of women fleeing domestic violence and forced marriages.

A February report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, concluded that 65 percent of cases filed under EVAW that involved battery and other kinds of serious abuse were resolved through mediation, while only 5 percent led to criminal prosecution.

According to a UNAMA report in February 2015, one-third of detainees in Afghan detention facilities are tortured and unofficial detention centers continue to function, with four such centers in Kandahar alone. There were no reported investigations into incidents of torture documented by UNAMA, and no reported prosecutions.

A September 2015 amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code, imposed by presidential decree, allows Afghan authorities to detain for a renewable one-year period anyone suspected of “crimes against internal or external security,” or believed “likely to commit such a crime.”

INDIA

n May, the northeastern state of Tripura revoked the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), citing a decline in insurgency. However, it remains in force in Jammu and Kashmir and in other northeastern states. AFSPA has been widely criticized by rights groups and numerous independent commissions have recommended repealing or amending the law, but the government has not done so in the face of stiff army opposition.

A May report by the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions noted that “impunity remains a serious problem” and expressed regret that India had not repealed or at least radically amended AFSPA.

LGBT individuals continue to face harassment, extortion, intimidation, and abuse, including by the police. In December 2013, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of section 377 of the Indian penal code, which criminalizes same-sex conduct between consenting adults. An appeal was pending at time of writing.

The upper house of parliament approved a proposed law in April that, if enacted, would protect the rights of transgender people. In 2014, the Supreme Court mandated legal recognition of transgender people as a third gender and ruled them eligible for special education and employment benefits.

Despite its democratic traditions, however, India has not yet emerged as an effective proponent of human rights. For instance, in October, when India invited all 54 leaders of the African Union to a summit in New Delhi, it ignored calls by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who faces charges of war crimes and genocide in Darfur.

India was a weak proponent of human rights at the UN in 2015. In March, India voted in support of a Russian-backed resolution to remove benefits for same-sex partners of UN staff. India abstained on Human Rights Council resolutions on Syria, North Korea, and Ukraine, and voted against resolutions on Iran and Belarus.

In July, India abstained on a UN Human Rights Council resolution that called for Israeli accountability in the 2014 Gaza conflict. The Indian government said it had abstained from voting because the resolution included a reference to bringing Israel before the ICC, which India considered “intrusive.

Few months back in Kashmir capt. Major gogoi arrested a person who was throwing stone and he tied by major gogoi as a result of which state human rights commission directed the central govt. to pay  10 lacs rs to the victim 

BALOCHISTAN

Human rights violations in the Balochistan province of Pakistan have drawn concern and criticism in the international community, being described by Human Rights Watch (HRW) as having reached epidemic proportions.The violations have taken place during the ongoing Balochistan conflict between Baloch nationalists and the Government of Pakistan over the rule of Balochistan, the largest province by land area of modern-day Pakistan.

Violations have a fairly low profile in Pakistan. According to Declan Walsh in The Guardian newspaper, “newspaper reports” in Pakistan about civilian killings in Balochistan are “buried quietly on the inside pages, cloaked in euphemisms or, quite often, not published at all”.Journalist Ahmed Rashid writes that “so many journalists have been killed in Balochistan” that “journalists are too scared” to cover the issue.

The Frontier Corps, the anti-Shia group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and other groups have been accused of “a decade-long campaign” of “pick up and dump” in which “Baloch nationalists, militants or even innocent bystanders are picked up, disappeared, tortured, mutilated and then killed”. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has been accused of massive human rights abuses in Balochistan by Human Rights Watch, with the enforced disappearance of hundreds of nationalists and activists. In 2008 alone, an estimated 1102 people were disappeared from the region. There have also been reports of torture. An increasing number of bodies are being found on roadsides having been shot in the head. In July 2011, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan issued a report on illegal disappearances in Balochistan which identified ISI and Frontier Corps as the perpetrators. According to journalist Malik Siraj Akbar, as of May 2015, “dozens of people are losing their lives every day” in “extra judicial killings committed by the Pakistani security forces” in the province of Balochistan.

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)and Al Jazeera, there has been a surge in religious extremism in Balochistan, with banned terrorist organizations such as Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Pakistani Taliban targeting Hindus, Shias (including Hazaras) and Zikris, resulting in the migration of over 210,000 Shias, Zikris, and Hindus from Baluchistan to other parts of Pakistan.^[30] A further 90,000 ethnic Punjabis have also fled due to campaigns against Punjabis by Balochi militants.^[31]

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Dozens of armed groups remained active in eastern Congo. Many commanders controlled forces responsible for war crimes, including ethnic massacres, killing of civilians, rape, forced recruitment of children, and pillage.

In Beni territory, North Kivu, unidentified fighters continued to commit sporadic massacres of civilians, killing dozens. Further north, in Ituri province, the Patriotic Resistance Front in Ituri (FRPI) rebel group also committed serious human rights abuses, particularly rape and pillage. In Rutshuru territory, North Kivu province, bandits and armed groups kidnapped dozens of civilians for ransom.

In January, security forces brutally suppressed demonstrations in the capital, Kinshasa, and other cities by those opposed to proposed changes to the electoral law requiring a national census before national elections could be held, effectively extending Kabila’s term for several years.

At time of writing, human rights defender Christopher Ngoyi, youth activists Fred Bauma and Yves Makwambala, and political party leaders Jean-Claude Muyambo, Ernest Kyaviro, and Vano Kiboko remained in detention at Kinshasa’s central prison. On September 14, Kiboko was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison on trumped up charges of racial hatred, tribalism, and spreading false rumors. On September 18, Kyaviro was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for provoking and inciting disobedience toward public authorities. Trials based on politically motivated charges were ongoing for the others at time of writing.

WEB REFERENCES

• http://www.endvawnow.org 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking
• http://www.ohchr.org
• http://www.un.org/documents/st.htm
• www.nesri.org
• www.hrw.org

BOOK REFFERENCES:

• HUMAN VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS : justice dharmadhikar

Moral rights.

Moral rights are the things that people can do or have unalienable access to as defined to the prevailing societal conventions of the time. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.[i]

Moral rights are representative of social values concerning authorship, creativity and artistic creation is something more than an attempt to earn a livelihood. These rights flow from the fact that a literary or artistic work reflects the personality of the creator, just as much as the economic rights reflect the author’s need to keep body and soul together.[ii]

Moral rights or ‘droit moral ‘originated in French law. The Rome Act of 1928 added the droit moral to the Bern Convention of 1886. Moral rights finds expression in section 57 of the Copyright Act , 1957 which is in accordance  with Article 6bis of the Berne Convention. They are the author’s or creator’s special right which includes the right to paternity (the right to claim authorship of a work) and the right to integrity (the right to protect author’s honor and reputation). The Berne Convention requires these rights to be independent of author’s economic rights. Moral rights are only accorded to individual authors and in many national laws they remain with the authors even after the authors have transferred their economic rights.

Moral right is different from other rights such as legal right.

Moral rights are ones that are determined by a moral system which are declared by a religion, philosophy, cultural values, or personal code while legal rights are those that are declared by a legal body and set as law.

Legal rights are enforceable by law but moral rights are not enforceable by law.

Example for moral right: if you are a student and paid the examination fee of a classmate without his request so as to save him from losing his chance in the examination, and if he doesn’t return the amount to you, you cannot go to court.

Example of legal right: In the above example, if you have helped your friend on his request, you can go to court to make him pay back the amount as it was a contract formed out of one’s request and other’s acceptance.[iii]

Moral rights of copyright owners.

Copyright refers to the legal right of the owner of intellectual property. In simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy. This means that original creators of the product and anyone they give authorization are the only ones with exclusive rights. A copyright is an exclusive  rights granted by law for a limited period to an author, designer, etc. for his/her original work.

A “copyright owner” or “copyright holder” is a person or a company who owns any one of the exclusive rights of copyright in a work.

• The right to reproduce and make copies of an original work;
• The right to prepare derivative works based on the original work;
• The right to distribute copies to the public by sale or another form of transfer, such as rental or lending;
• The right to publicly perform the work;
• The right to publicly display the work, and

The reproduction right is perhaps the most important right granted by the Copyright Act. Under this right, no one other than the copyright owner may make any reproductions or copies of the work.

According to the Copyright Act, a derivative work is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.

The distribution right grants to the copyright holder the exclusive right to make a work available to the public by sale, rental, lease, or lending

Under the public performance right, a copyright holder is allowed to control when the work is performed “publicly.”

The public display right is similar to the public performance right, except that this right controls the public “display” of a work.[iv]

       Rights of person who gives copyrighted work.

The Copyright Act, 1957 provides copyright protection in India in following forms:
a. Economic rights of the author
b. Moral Rights of the author.

Economic rights of the author:
The rights are mainly, in respect of literary, dramatic and musical, other than computer program, to reproduce the work in any material form including the storing of it in any medium by electronic means, to issue copies of the work to the public, to perform the work in public or communicating it to the public, to make any cinematograph film or sound recording in respect of the work, and to make any translation or adaptation of the work.

Moral Rights of the author:

Moral rights are rights that the creator of work is automatically entitled to and which no one else can claim. The moral rights of work can even remain with the creator after their death. Under Section 57 of the Act defines the two basic ‘moral rights of an author as follows:
a. Right of paternity
b. Right of integrity

The right of paternity refers to a right of an author to claim authorship of work and a right to prevent all others from claiming authorship of his work.

Right of integrity empowers the author to prevent distortion, mutilation or other alterations of his work, or any other action in relation to said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.[v]

Case law:

Case I.

The first case pertaining to authors’ moral rights- Mannu Bhandari  v Kala Vikas Pictures Ltd.

In this case , the court examined the substance of the protection granted by the  integrity right under section 57 of the act. The case pertained to the adaptation of the novel “Aap Ka Bunty “into the defendants’ film “Samay Ki Dhara”. The court had to consider whether the adaption  amounted to multination or distortion of the author’s work. Parties eventually  reached a settlement among themselves. The court observed that section 57 is the statuatory recognition of an author’s intellectual property and must be protected with special care .

Case II.

Delhi High Court’s Verdict in Amar Nath Sehgal v Union of India(1987):

This case deals with the issue of an author exercising their moral rights after assigning copyright.

In1957 the government commissioned Mr. Sehgal to create a bronze  mural sculpture, which was to be displayed in Vigyan Bhawan. In 1979 the government removed the mural and stowed it away without Sehgal’s consent. Consequently, Sehgal filed suit seeking to enforce section 57 of the act and hold the government liable for its violations of his moral rights. Further , the court interpreted the integrity right broadly enough to encompass the protection of India’s culture heritage and deemed the mural to be an Indian national treasure and thus applied section 57 of the act.

Case III.

Delhi high court judgement  Sartaj singh Pannu v Gurbani Media Pvt. Ltd :

This case addressed the issue of the waiver of moral rights where question was whether film directors can be considered authors and waive their moral rights. In this case Sartaj Singh Pannu  a young film Director seeks orders restraining Gurbani Media Pvt. Ltd. from releasing the film ‘Nanak Shah Fakir’ without giving credit as the ‘sole Director’ of the film.

Initially court concluded that at the present stage, without further evidence being led, it is not possible to conclusively hold that Pannu is the sole Director of the film. The Court  further concluded that the question whether a Director of a film could be considered an ‘author’ of an ‘artistic work’ would also depend on the facts of each case. Again, at the present stage, without evidence being led, the Court is unable to conclude that Pannu was coerced or otherwise compelled into waiving his rights to be acknowledged as a Director of the film ‘Nanak Shah Fakir’.[vi]

Conclusion.

Copyright laws are meant to protect the person efforts and skills. It act as an obstruction  for the infringement of the same. However, the moral rights are such right which cannot be licensed like economic one. The moral value of a person is attached and no one has right to deteriot the condition of a person. These rights are acting as a preserving  measure of skill and interest of such person and  hence their hardwork deserve  to be protected

References.

[i]http://www.legalserviceindia.com/article/195-Copyright-Law-in-India.html

[ii] https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_909_2016.pdf

[iii]Chawla, alka”Law of copyright”,Lexis nexis, Fourth Edition. Pg. no.121

[iv] https://www.lawctopus.com/academike/moral-rights-author/

[v]https://www.mondaq.com/india/copyright/537094/moral-rights-under-copyright-law

[vi] https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=0e35276b-9737-47dd-9c1a-94ef6d25036d

Lockdown is the situation of restricting movements of individual for any security or safety measures .it aims to control the physical roaming of the persons.

Provisions related to the lockdown in india :

The term lockdown is common from past few months in country due to epidemic covid 19 .the country has never witnessed such longer restriction in the history of india .it is harsh reality that term lockdown has nowhere defined in the Indian legislation or act but there are certain law which makes this lockdown possible legally.

Epidemic disease act ,1897

Section 2 of the act enables the government to secure its people when it feels threat to them from an epidemic outbreak. Section 3 states  for penal provision for disobeying the laws whereas section 4 says that the persons which are acting under the act and in good faith shall not be liable or punished .the latest amendment through the ordinaces in april 2020 has protected medical and healthcare staff from being attaked and recovery of damages done to their vehicles or premises .

Disaster management act 2005:

Section 3 of the act gives power to formulate he guidelines and rules for managing the disaster .section 8 ,11,12,24,35 are the some important provisions of the act .

Crpc section 144  and  Ipc sction 188:

Section 144 probihits assembly of 5 or more person in a public place ,while section 188 of Indian penal code describes as disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant that causes danger to human life, health or safety and can be punished with imprisonment or a fine. disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant” that causes danger to human life, health or safety and can be punished with imprisonment or a fine.

Hence the term lockdown ,quarantine has not been defined anywhere in the Indian statutes but the above propision includind some more make this possible to show the effects of lockdown .

India has performed well in the global animal protection index and had secured grade ‘C’ this year but still we are lacking in saving and protecting animals as passing a legislation  or provision doesn’t ensure that the problems will be solved unless the implementation of those provisions will be done  strictly and seriously .There is no room for developments in domain related to animal welfare there are many things that are lacking behind  such as animals which are used in the scientific researches are exempted from prevention of cruelty to animals act 1960,lack of regulations regarding the raring of farm animals. Cow is considered as deity in our country, but they are subject to cruelty at many places. The threat to animals is due to many things such as climate change, human exploitation and ill practices, habitat loss. according to a data climate change threatens about 43% of amphibians 37% of reptiles and 21% of birds. The recent case of an elephant in Kerala carrying a baby in her womb died due to consumption of crackers which was kept in a pineapple by persons of that area which shows a big irresponsible and shameless act by humans. does the life of animals doesn’t matter at all? the legal provisions for safeguarding interest of animals are broder in paper but narrower in thoughts. there are several laws such as prevention of cruelty to animals act 1960, wildlife protection act 1972,animal birth control policy , article 51 a (g) of constitution , section 428 and 429 of Indian penal code but that is enough to safeguard those speechless creatures or we need something new ? the faith in the Indian legislations are getting diminished day by day as there is rarely anybody getting punished egarding any of so here i had provided some suggestions regarding the same .

solutions to carve out the problem regarding the coservation and the protection of the animals :

appointing a forest inspection officer at each level could may reduce the smuggling of the animals and prevent them from being killed .

strict and more strict rules can only be meaningful if apllied and enforced truly.

special courts to tackle the cases of animal protection disputes may relief in the efforts of animal protection.

geographical and animal diversification is a must go process in the step toward s the animal protection.

there shuld be systematic check to the persons whos entering the woods fot any purpose they should be examined before the entry .

there should be awareness and encourage programme organised to create a social knowledge liieracy about the need and importance of the wildlife culture in conserving the nautre .

providing oppourtunity to locals for the protection of wildlife as they are better knowing the place and it could be more efficient and realistic view of treating the wildlife environment.

last but not the laest the person should be self motivted not to harm the animals as it for the own benifits .

Ministry of Shipping has separated the operation routes for merchant vessels and fishing vessels in South West Indian waters. Ministry has taken the step keeping in view safety and efficiency of navigation. 

The new routes will come into force from first of August. Shipping Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has said that the decision reflects centre’s commitment for ensuring ease of navigation in Indian waters. He said, it will also reduce instances of collision and will provide ease in flow of traffic along with enhancing protection of marine environment.

Substantial number of merchant ships pass through Arabian Sea along South West coast of the country and many fishing vessels operate in the same region. The region being one of the busy routes, causes accidents between vessels and ships.

In Bihar, the flood situation has further deteriorated following heavy rains in catchment areas of Nepal and heavy discharge of water from Gandak barrage. Principal Secretary of Water Resources Department Sanjiv Hans said five lakh cusec water will be discharged from Gandak barrage.

He said 4.50 lakh cusec water was discharged from the barrage yesterday morning. Surging water of Gandak river is spreading in new areas. Five districts of Saran, Vaishali Muzaffarpur, East and West Champaran had been put on caution following heavy discharge of water from Gandak barrage. People of low lying areas are being evacuated.

Twenty thousand people have so far been shifted to safer places. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar yesterday reviewed the prevailing flood situation in the state and instructed concerned authorities to step up relief and rescue operations in the flood affected areas of the state.

About four lakh people have been affected by floods in eight districts including Sitamarhi, Darbhanga, Sheohar and Supaul. 210 panchayats of these districts are reeling under the impact of flood. Burhi Gandak is flowing above the danger mark and Bagmati and adhwara groups of rivers are maintaining a rising trend.

Flood water is engulfing new areas. In view of this, district administrations of Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga and Khagaria have been put on caution. The Met department has warned of heavy rains in the next 24 hours in the northern parts of the state. 

Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board headed by Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu has decided to cancel this year’s Amarnath Yatra in view of the coronavirus situation. LG, who is Chairman of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) presided over the 39th Board meeting of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board yesterday in which the Board members participated virtually through video conference to discuss the conduct of this year’s Yatra.
 
The Board suggested that it would not be advisable to conduct Shri Amarnathji Yatra 2020 and it would be advisable to cancel it this year in larger public interest. This would enable the Health, Civil and Police Administrations to focus on the immediate challenges facing them rather than diverting resources, manpower and attention to the conduct of the Shri Amarnathji Yatra.
 
Based upon the circumstances, the Board decided that it is not advisable to hold and conduct this year’s Shri Amarnathji Yatra and expressed its regret to announce the cancellation of Yatra 2020. The Board said that it is aware of and respects the sentiments of millions of devotees and to keep the religious sentiments alive, the Board shall continue the Live Telecast/ Virtual Darshan of the morning and evening Aarti. 
 
It also said that the traditional rituals shall be carried out as per the past practice and the Chhadi Mubarak shall be facilitated by the Government.

Meanwhile, the Chhari Mubarak of Swami Amarnath was taken to Sharika-Bhawani temple at Hari Parvat in Srinagar yesterday to pay obeisance to the goddess Sharika by Mahant Dipendra Giri. Prayers were offered for the early end of the prevailing coronavirus pandemic. Prayers were also offered before the goddess for bestowing peace and prosperity in Jammu & Kashmir. 

Government has extended connectivity norms for work from home for IT and BPO companies till December 31 this year due to COVID-19 pandemic. 

In a tweet last night, the Department of Telecommunications said, it has further extended the relaxations in the terms and conditions for other service providers up to 31st December 2020 to facilitate work from home in view of the ongoing concern due to COVID-19.

The time period for work from home was expiring on July 31. 

Harsh Vardhan says N95 masks with respirator valves do not prevent coronavirus; appeals everyone to use triple layer mask made of cloth

@drharshvardhanUnion Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that N95 masks with respirator valves in them do not prevent the coronavirus from spreading out. He said, N95 mask fitted with perforated respirator is contrary to the rules adopted to prevent the spread of coronavirus. In a tweet, Dr Vardhan appealed to everyone to use a triple layer mask made of cloth and also to encourage others for this.

Director-General of Health Services, Dr Rajiv Garg has written to the Principal Secretaries of health and medical education of all the States in this regard. In the letter, Dr Garg said that the use of valved respirator N95 masks is detrimental to the measures adopted for preventing the spread of coronavirus as it does not prevent the virus from escaping out of the mask.

In view of it, the DGHS has urged the States to instruct all concerned to follow the guidelines on the use of face and mouth cover and prevent inappropriate use of N95 masks. Dr Garg said, it has been observed that there is inappropriate use of N95 masks, particularly those with the valved respirator, by the public other than designated health workers. He also referred to an advisory issued by the Health Ministry on the use of homemade protective cover for face and mouth available on its website.

In April, the Health Ministry had issued an advisory on the use of homemade protective cover for face and mouth, asking people to wear it, particularly when they step out of their residences. It also listed the procedures of making such homemade masks, asking to ensure it fits the face well and there are no gaps on the sides.