Chief Secretary Basant Pratap Singh has issued directives to hold security audit of all the 11 Central jails of Madhya Pradesh.
Singh said that conducting security audit on the basis of Model Jail Manual 2016, work proposals must be sent to strengthen jail security by December 31. All the important resources will be provided by the government immediately. Singh also gave directives to initiate an action to fill around 2,000 vacant posts of jail guards.
The Chief Secretary gave these directives while addressing the Jail Department meeting held at Mantralaya.
Principal Secretary, Jail, Vinod Semval, DG, Jail, Sanjay Chowdhary, ADG, Jail, Sudhir Shahi, beside Jail Superintendents of Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Rewa, Satna, Ujjain, Sagar, Narsinghpur, Badwani and Hoshangabad were present at the meeting.
Directives to include security standards adopted by the Central Industrial Security Force and Chhattisgarh Jail Management in the jails of the State were given. The Public Works Department was directed to examine the design and construction process of the jails keeping in view the security. It was informed at the meeting that special arrangements will be made at Indore jail to keep dangerous and sensitive
prisoners.
Directives to post jail guards at jail by removing them from other duties were given at the meeting.
The Chief Secretary said that there is a need to ensure and strict compliance of provisions like not to post jail guard at his home district and not to post any jail guard for more than five years at one place.
Jail Superintendents apprised about the need for necessary arrangements to encourage jail staff for better work, gunmen to the Jail superintendents and to strengthen vehicle
arrangements for
patrolling. Deliberations to hand over the responsibility to the School of Good Governance to develop new jail manual for the state were also took place in the
meeting.