The Commission has now asked the states and other concerned authorities to submit the report within six weeks, a release issued by the NHRC said today. The NHRC has issued this order on May 21.
"Most of the authorities in Centre and states/Union Territories have failed to submit requisite reports to the NHRC on safeguards they have put in place relating to exposure to asbestos. Only the states of Mizoram, Nagaland and the National Institute of Occupational Health Ahmedabad have submitted the reports," it said.
The NHRC had given six months time for submitting reports and on March 5 this year, they were given another six weeks' extension when most of them failed to give the requisite reports.
The Commission had asked them to share with it the information on the action taken by them with regard to the Supreme Court judgment on exposure to asbestos.
The Supreme Court had asked the central and state governments to review safeguards in relation to primary as well as secondary exposure to asbestos.
The Commission had taken cognisance of a complaint in July 2011 alleging that about 50,000 people die every year in the country due to asbestos related cancer.
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The complainant had sought Commission's intervention for a ban on the use of chrysotile asbestos (white asbestos), which is hazardous to health of people and causes various incurable diseases.
The white asbestos is a fibrous material used for building roofs and walls, among others.