Ranchi

Send kids of jailed parents to schools: Chief Secretary

PNS

Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma on Thursday asked officials to send kids of jailed persons to schools. Reviewing the Home, Prisons and Disaster Management department and Jharkhand Police Housing Corporation limited, Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma said that 5 -year and above children of imprisoned or convicted people must be enrolled and sent to school.

She asked officials to do profiling of children passing their time in jail with their imprisoned mother and send the kids to residential and other schools.

She also directed to do video conferencing of all the hardcore naxalites and criminals while they are brought for trial. She said that before complete digitalization of the court, the criminals should be tried through video conferencing. Verma also directed to install video conferencing facilities in all the 24 jails of the State. She said that convicted criminals in different jails should be shifted to central jails. Mobile detector instrument should be bought for jails.

The CS said that all payments of Home Guard personnel should be done through DBT and duties should be allotted to all. She ordered to depute two women home guards each at Kasturba Gandhi schools in the State. She also stressed on making the home guards’ data online and allotment of work to them through software. She directed to speed up police line construction in Dumka, Palamu, Chaibasa and Saraikela Kharsawan districts. She said that the process of PMC must be completed at the earliest and DPR should be made. Different sports facilities should be available in police line. 

The department officials said that out of 18,000 home guards, Aadhar numbers of 17,563 have been collected and seeding work has been completed. Home guard band training is being done and proposal for creating additional band has been sent to the department. All personnel of home guard are being insured under Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Beema Yojana.