Retired IAS officer Vinod Agarwal, who is presently serving as a rapporteur for the National Human Rights Commission, visited lok Nayak Jay Prakash Narayan Central jail, Hazaribagh on Saturday. At the central jail, he quarried about the total number of prisoners kept in the jail, number of wards, number of inmates released under prisoners release scheme, the number of under trail male and female inmates, the quality of food served to the inmates etc.
He stayed for more than an hour inside the jail premises and took a close look of the arrangements for inmates. After inspecting the premises, he talked with the jail Superintendent, Rupam Prasad, to take the statistics. Prasad informed him that presently there were 1,622 inmates in JP central Jail out of which 94 are women.
Regarding the prisoners release scheme, Prasad informed last month as per the instruction of State level board 19 prisoners were released from the jail. The jail administration has sent proposal to release 24 inmates out of which the State level board rejected 3 proposals. Two inmates require fresh recommendation of SP, Hazaribagh, after that they will be released as per the direction of the board.
Agarwal made surprise visits of two Anganwari Kendras of Mandu and Charhi when he was coming from Ranchi to Hazaribagh. At both centers he inquired about the number of kids envolved and the nutrients given to them as per government norms.
Agarwal was posted in Hazaribagh few year ago as a divisional commissioner of North Chotanagpur division. After retirement he is serving as a rapporteur of national human rights commission. Before leaving Hazaribagh he said he will prepare a report which will go to the Home Ministry of Government of India through the commission.