The National Human Rights Commission is short of staff to take on the added responsibility if the anti-communal violence bill is passed in its present form, its chairman K.G. Balakrishnan said Thursday.
"The commission will have to share a huge responsibility for which its present capacity in terms of staff and infrastructure will not be sufficient," he said referring to the anti-communal violence bill.
However, the commission is prepared to take the responsibility in the right spirit, said Balakrishnan, a former chief justice of India.
On Monday, the cabinet approved the revised bill which provides for penalty for hate propaganda.
The NHRC chief was speaking at a day-long workshop here for media persons called "Media and Human Rights: issues and Challenges".
It was organised by the NHRC and the Indian Law Institute.
