Human Rights Violations and Public Administration in India: An Assessment

Human Rights (HRs) are the basic rights or individual freedoms one has simply because the person is a human being. These violations never be justified. But there are numerous HRs violations had been happing around the world, which includes in India. The offending agent of the HRs violations is non-specific; it could be a governmental authority or a private, nongovernmental, or non-state actor. On the other hand, public administration means a governmental administration. The relationship between human rights and public administration is that public administrative human rights seek to protect the individual’s rights against its violations, which were did by that particular people, which includes the administration and government agencies. HRs is based on the defense of citizens’ rights against public power and the administration that enforces it. This is tells us shockingly whether a state is a perpetrator or protector of HRs? The answer is that state has to be and should be a protector of HRs only and not as perpetrator or violator of HRs. But one can find in the significant number of states through their respective governments in the world were also violators of HRs as well. This is applicable to India as well. Moreover, this is evident in the US Department of State’s every year annual publication of its ‘Country Reports on Human Rights Practices’. The department has been publishing the same on India country’s Human Rights Report (HRR) as well and the 2023 HRR report tells us truth about significant number of HRs violations took place from the government side also in India, which means, the significant number of the government officials were also involved in violating the HRs in India.