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IGNOU to run rights awareness programme for police personnel | The National Human Rights Commission and the Indira Gandhi National Open University today signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop and conduct three types of courses on human rights awareness for police personnel at cutting edge level. This will include basic course for
Constables/Sub-Inspectors, advance course for middle level police officers and
trainers' training course. The courses will be available through distance learning
and internet aided online mode. Secretary General, NHRC, A.K. Jain and
Vice-Chancellor,
IGNOU, VN Rajasekharan Pilllai signed the MoU at Faridkot House, New Delhi in
the presence of NHRC Acting Chairperson, Mr. Justice G.P. Mathur and Member,
Mr. PC Sharma. To begin with a basic course of one week duration will be
developed
and conducted. This will broadly covers introduction to human rights, protection
of human rights, police and human rights, custodial justice, best human rights
compliant practises in policing and case studies. The development of course
curriculum,
design, contents, delivery and review mechanism will be done by IGNOU in
consultation
and with the concurrence of NHRC. IGNOU will hold the tests/examination and
award
the necessary certificates to the successful participants. Arrangements for launching
the portal, providing free online access to and downloads of the course material
to all participants free of charge will be looked after by IGNOU. NHRC will provide
the material available with it to IGNOU to develop course contents and also bear
cost for preparing printed, audio or video copies of the course material. The
cost involved in running a training programme will also be borne by NHRC. The
places for conducting the training programmes will be selected jointly by NHRC
and IGNOU. There will be one or two days counselling sessions at the end of each
basic course for clarifications and explaining the issues. The counselling sessions
can be either in class room or through web conferencing. The counsellors shall
be arranged by IGNOU. The MoU will remain effective for a period of two years
w.e.f. the 30th December, 2009 and it can be extended both in terms of its scope
and duration by mutual agreement. |
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