To strengthen prison management and surveillance, the Punjab Cabinet on Wednesday approved the revival of 305 posts of warders and 20 posts of Assistant Superintendents in the Jail Department.
The decision, taken at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, is aimed at providing the prison authorities with sufficient manpower to further secure the jails.
Giving details about the revival of prison posts, spokesperson said that these posts had been deemed to be abolished as they had been lying vacant for more than six months.
The Cabinet considered it necessary to revive them in order to augment the prison strength to prevent recurrence of Nabha jail break kind of incidents and Gurdaspur Central Jail type of riots. The recruitment for these posts will be done by DG Punjab Police.
The Cabinet also gave its nod to the appointment of Everest summiteer Prithvi Singh Chahal as DSP in Punjab Police, as a special case, an official spokesperson disclosed after the meeting.
The appointment is in line with the State Government’s commitment to promote sports and provide job avenues to sportspersons. As the youngest mountaineer to scale Mount Everest, which he conquered at the tender age of 17 years, one month and 23 days, Chahal’s case was deemed special as the cabinet felt it would encourage adventure sports in the state.
This is the second such decision by the cabinet, which had, on August 24, okayed the appointment of woman cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur as a DSP in Punjab Police department.
Punjab to offer govt job to Navjot, Rs 5 lakh cash reward
Punjab Cabinet decided to offer a suitable Government job to wrestler Navjot Kaur, besides giving her a cash reward of Rs five lakh, following her gold-winning performance in Asian Wrestling Championships in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Expressing appreciation for the Punjab girl’s excellent performance, CM Amarinder Singh mooted the proposal to offer a job to Navjot during a meeting.
The Cabinet immediately accepted the CM’s proposal and decided on a job offer for the Tarn Taran girl, said an official spokesperson.
Capt Amarinder directed the concerned officials to work on a comprehensive policy for rewarding sportspersons, specifying the criteria for providing job opportunity to those winning various medals.