Correct Answer – Option 2 : 1993

The Correct Answer is “1993“.

• The National Human Rights Commission is a statutory body established under the provisions of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
• It is responsible for looking into cases of excesses that are violating human rights and to strengthen the efforts to uphold human rights in the country.
• Presently it is comprised of a speaker and 4 members.
• This is a multilateral institution.
• The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 provided that the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is a person who has been a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. 
• A person who has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or a Judge of the Supreme Court be the chairperson of the NHRC.
• Currently, the chairpersons of various commissions such as the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, and the National Commission for Women are members of the NHRC.

• The bill provides for the inclusion of the chairpersons of the National Commission for Backward Classes, the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, and the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities as members of the NHRC.
• The bill seeks to increase the persons having knowledge of human rights to be appointed as members from two to three. Further, it mandates one of them to be a woman.
• The bill provides that a person who has been Chief Justice or Judge of a High Court will be the chairperson of an SHRC.
• The bill seeks to reduce the term of office chairperson and members of the NHRC and SHRC from five years or till the age of seventy years to three years or till the age of seventy years, whichever is earlier.
• The Bill provides for the central government to confer on an SHRC human rights functions being discharged by Union Territories. 
• Further, it provides for functions relating to human rights in the case of Delhi to be dealt with by the NHRC.