Panel to check racial bias against N-E people

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, June 7

The Centre has set up a three-member committee for monitoring and redressing grievances related to the alleged racial discrimination faced by the people from North-Eastern states.

According to an order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the panel will be headed by Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary (NE) in the MHA. Other two members are Alana Golmei, secretary, Northeast Support Centre, New Delhi, and Mizum Nyodu, assistant professor, Law Faculty, Delhi University.

“Any person or group of persons or communities hailing from North-East who claim to be victims or have faced any act of racial abuse, racial atrocities, racial violence, racial discrimination in any part of the country, can mail their complaints, suggestions or grievances at ne.complaints@mha.gov.in,” the order said.

The panel has been established “following an order of the Supreme Court after a writ petition was filed in the wake of a series of attacks on N-E people”, including the death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh, Nido Tania, in Delhi, it stated.