The categories are:
- Bonded labour matters.
- Neglected children.
- Non-payment of minimum wages to workers and exploitation of casual workers (except individual cases).
- Petitions from jails complaining of harassment, premature release, release after 14 years, death in jail, transfer, release on personal bond, speedy trial.
- Petitions against police for refusing to register a case, harassment, and death in police custody.
- Petitions against atrocities on women (harassment, bride-burning, rape, murder, kidnapping).
- Petitions complaining of harassment or torture of villagers by co-villagers or police from SCs, STs, and economically backward classes.
- Petitions pertaining to environmental pollution, ecological balance, drugs, food adulteration, heritage/culture maintenance, antiques, forest, and wild life.
- Petitions from riot-victims.
- Family pension.