(iii) one retired police officer who has retired from the rank of director general of poiice; and (iv) one human rights activist who has at least twenty years of experience of service in the field of human rights 5 provided that the members of the commission shall be nominated by the central government after consulting a panel consisting of chief justice of india, the leader of opposition in the lok sabha and the chairman of national human rights commission 12 (1) the commission may— | powers           | and    ||------------------|--------|| functions        | of     || the              |        || committee       |        || 10               |        || (4)              |        || inquire,         |        || cause            |        || to               |        || inquire,         |        || investigate      |        || and              |        || cause            |        || to               |        || investigate      |        || any              |        || incident         |        || of               |        || offences         |        || mentioned        |        || in               |        || sections         |        || 3                |        || to               |        || 5                |        || of               |        || this             |        || act             |        || (ii              |        || call             |        || for              |        || a                |        || report           |        || from             |        || the              |        || district         |        || magistrate/chief |        || secretary        |        || of               |        || the              |        || sats             |        || concerned,       |        || on               |        || such             |        || incidents       |        || (iii)            |        || issue            |        || public           |        || notice           |        || requesting       |        || citizens         |        || and              |        || non-governmental |        || organisations    |        || to               |        || depose           |        || before           |        || it               |        || in               |        || the              |        || course           |        || of               |        || an               |        || inquiry         |        || 15               |        || (iv)             |        || use              |        || the              |        || services         |        || of               |        || any              |        || investigating    |        || agency           |        || of               |        || the              |        || state            |        || or               |        || the              |        || union            |        || government      |        || (v)              |        || supervise        |        || investigation    |        || and              |        || prosecution     |        |(2) the commission shall fix responsibility of the public servants for maintaining law _and order duty and shall recommend to the appropriate government for such departmental actions/punishment and/or prosecution of such public servant, as it may deem fit 20 (3) the commission shall invite claims from all persons who are entitled to claim compensation for loss of life, limb, serious injury and/or loss of property and otherwise 25 (4) the commission shall decide the quantum of compensation over and above the sum mentioned in section 8 of this act as well as the person/persons to whom it shall be paid 13 the victims of communal violence shall have the right to appeal to civil courts against the decision of the commission in matters of compensation | right    | of    ||----------|-------|| victims  | to    || appeal  |       |14, (1) the commission shall, in its report, record its views regarding timely response report of the commission or failure of the political executive of the state in handling the offences mentioned in sections 30 3 to 5 of this act (2) the report of the commission shall be made public within two months of the occurrence of the crime commission 35 15 (1) the commission on receipt of an information or otherwise, shall call for report from the appropriate government in cases of tension arising between the groups/classes and shall also suggest appropriate measures for reconciliation and maintenance of peace between the groups and classes to call reports from appropriate government (2) the correspondence with the appropriate government may be kept confidential if the commission so decides 40(3) the commission shall constitute a committee of experts to monitor the community/group relations power to make rules 16 the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this act  statement of objects and reasonscommunalism has become a major threat to indian civil society and polity we all are aware of the horrible forms of communal riots as well as politics based on communalism haunting the country in the past several years it has posed a serious challenge to the fundamentals of our constitution and the rule of law even the highest court of the land had to intervene many a times to protect the principle of natural justice india has clearly reached a stage where the existing laws have failed to prevent communal violence and politics based on hate the only way out is to work in right earnestness for the prevention of communal violence rather than dealing with it after it occurs any such attempt needs to be based on a national awareness campaign but in addition, certain short term legal and administrative measures, too, are necessary to nip the communal violence in the bud itself that is why it is necessary for government of india to immediately constitute a fulltime commission to monitor and prevent communal! and sectarian violence and also a fresh set of laws must be enacted giving judicial teeth to the proposed commission to act for the prevention of communal violence, to monitor and enhance inter-community faith, peace and harmony to act and intervene independently both as a preventive and fire fighting body to deal with the victims of sectarian violence the proposed commission should be empowered to initiate legal action against the perpetrators of communal/sectarian violence and should have legal powers to work for the compensation as well as rehabilitation of the communal/sectarian victims hence the bill new delhi; ajit singh february 17,2005 financial memorandumclause 8 of the bill provides for compensation to be paid to next of kins of those killed in communal riots clause 9 provides for provision of employment to one member ofa family whose sole earning member has been killed in communal violence clause 10 provides for compensation to be paid to those injured in incidents of communal violence clause 11 provides for the creation of a national commission for inter-community peace and justice clause 12 provides that commission shall fix the quantum of compensation to be paid to the victims of communal riots clause 15 provides for the constitution of a committee of experts to monitor inter-community relations the bill, therefore, if enacted, will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is, likely to involve an annual recurring expenditure of about rupees twenty crore and a non-recurring expenditure of about rupees fifty crore  _ memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 16 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the provisions of the bill the matters, in respect of which rules may be made are matters of procedure and detail the delegation of legislative powers, therefore, is ofa normal character 