Tribal Cultural Heritage in India
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The National Human Rights Commission “continued to receive complaints from different parts of the country on a wide range of issues [including] custodial deaths, torture, fake encounters, police high-handedness, violations committed by security forces, conditions relating to prisons.” – Annual Report (2014-2015)
https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/NHRC_AR_EN_2014-2015_27022019.pdf
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Source: “My sweet memories of Mizos” by S. Gurumanickam, The Hindu, 12 August 2012Address : https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article3755007.eceDate Visited: 12 January 2022
First official estimate [2010]: An NGO for every 400 people in India India has possibly the largest number of active non-government, not-for-profit organizations in the world. A recent study commissioned …