He was addressing at the valedictory session of month-long 16th Winter Internship programme of NHRC.
"The real fruit of their exposures to various aspects of human rights and related laws would be when they would take up the issues of human rights violations of others in the far flung areas of the country either with the State Human Rights Commissions or the National Human Rights Commission.
Justice Dattu felt that in order to have more in-depth understanding of human rights issues like human trafficking, rights of disabled persons, women, children, bonded labourers etc the Commission "may consider increasing the duration of the internship programme by two to three months."
"50 students, 33 girls and 17 boys, from universities and colleges of 18 states and union territories completed their internship.," it said.
The interns were given exposure to various aspects of human rights by eminent persons and senior officers of the Commission.
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