Section 3
Power, Functions And Duties Of The Commission
The power, function and duties of the Commission in addition to the power, function and duties of the Commission prescribed in Article 259 of the Constitution shall be as follows: -
(a) to review, monitor and evaluate the policy and programs related with the Khas Arya, backward class, persons with disabilities, senior citizens, labors, farmers, minorities as well as marginalized communities and backward class, people of Karnali, backward areas and economically indigent class,
(b) to monitor or cause to monitor the implementation of the recommendations made or suggestions given by the Commission,
(c) to formulate special programs for the development and empowerment of the economically or socially indigent people within the communities, class and region mentioned in Clause
(a) and to make recommendations to the Government of Nepal for their implementation,
(d) to conduct study and research into the language, script, culture, history, tradition, literature, art of the communities, class and region mentioned in Clause
(a) and to formulate programs for the protection and development of such language, script, culture, history, tradition, literature, art and to make recommendations to the Government of Nepal for their implementation,
(e) to conduct awareness generating program for the protection and promotion of the rights and interests of the communities, class and region mentioned in Clause
(a) and the empowerment of such class and communities,
(f) to formulate programs to end all forms of exploitation prevailing in the communities, class and regions mentioned in Clause
(a) and to make recommendations to the Government of Nepal for their implementation,
(g) to monitor the implementation of the international treaties, agreements relating to the the class, regions and communities mentioned in Clause (a) that Nepal is a party to, and to make recommendations or suggestions for their implementation to the Government of Nepal,
(h) to collect complaints against the persons or organizations that violate the rights of the class, regions and communities mentioned in Clause
(a) and to make recommendation to the concerned agency to conduct investigation and prosecution over such complaints,
(i) to identify the class, regions and communities stated mentioned in Clause (a), by means of detailed study and research and to make recommendations to the Government of Nepal to make lists of Surnames,
(j) to coordinate with the Government of Nepal and other institutions and organizations with relation to the policies, program and decisions taken regarding the class, regions and communities mentioned in Clause (a),
(k) to formulate and implement the code of conduct for the Chairperson, Members and employees of the Commission,
(l) to approve the annual plans and program of the Commission.