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After all, the very purpose of human rights is to give voice to the poor person, whose voice is not heard,&#8221;<\/em> <span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>NHRC Chairman Justice K G Balakrishnan<\/strong><\/span><\/span> said. He was here to inaugurate the open hearing of matters connected to atrocities against SC from the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The former Chief Justice of India said the purpose of the Commission was to give SCs<span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> &#8220;their voice, to assert their rights. That is the purpose of our vision&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We have been going to <span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Assam, Meghalaya, Gujarat<\/strong><\/span> and other states to understand the problems of the poor marginalised sections of the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He said 99 per cent of the recommendations of the NHRC were e- complied with by various state governments and he was happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0NHRC&#8217;s outreach to cover as many states as possible were part of the recommendations made by K B Saxena in his report commissioned by NHRC on continuing problems faced by the SCs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>\u00a0&#8220;..Saxena found that the existing delivery mechanism for those policies and programmes for Scheduled Castes has not found sincerity expected at various levels. 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