Haryana Director General of Prisons, Yashpal Singal on Sunday said that following the recent security lapse at Nabha prison in Punjab, concrete steps are being taken to step up security in the prisons in Haryana.
These include deployment of additional security personnel and strengthening of internal security management, said he.
Singal said that with a view to prevent security lapses as occured in Nabha, one PCR van had been deployed in every jail, and nakas had been set up.
The DGP said that new jails were being constructed in Panipat and Rewari with a capacity to hold 2,000 inmates, and these were likely to be completed by March, 2018.
Apart from this, land has been acquired in Mewat for a new jail, the construction of which would soon begin, he added.
The State Government is AlSO in the process of installing mobile jammers in the state jails. Jammers will be installed in jails in the wake of increasing incidents of cell phones getting slipped into prisons in Haryana.