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NHRC bats for traffic police hit by pollution
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday warned to take action against the Central and state governments, if they do not respond to its notice seeking details of what they did to help traffic police personnel facing health problems due to pollution.
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“Most of the state governments are not providing any extra allowances or health facilities to the traffic police personnel who are facing reduced life expectancy and other respiratory ailments due to vehicular pollution,” it said.
Taking cognisance of a complaint that raised the issue of right to health of traffic police personnel, the NHRC has now asked the Union home secretary and chief secretaries of all states to submit a detailed response within eight weeks.
It warned the states that it will be “constrained to invoke coercive process under section 13 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993” if they choose to delay their response. This section deals with NHRC’s powers relating to inquiries.
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