The Kawardha Sub Jail in Kabirdham district have been upgraded as a District Jail.
As per a notification issued by the Mantralaya here, using powers under Jail Act 1894 Sub Section-03, the State Government has upgraded the Kawardha Sub Jail into District Jail.
Notably, as on October 31, 2015, the Sub Jail at Kawardha had 177 prisoners against the prescribed capacity of 50 prisoners.
The Central Government has budgeted `13.30 crore for jail improvement activities.
The State Government has also provided a budgetary provision of `8 lakhs for computerisation of Central and District jails.
It may be recalled that the Chhattisgarh Home Department had approved `286.22 crore in 2014-15 for construction of various offices and residential quarters besides other infrastructural development of police establishments.
Moreover, `150 crores have been approved for construction and renovation of buildings of 75 police stations in insurgency infested districts of the State. Construction of three buildings have already been completed and handed over to Police Department. Six other buildings are nearing completion, while construction of remaining 66 buildings is in process, officials stated.
For infrastructural development in Police Department, the Home Department has approved `22 crores for construction of Armoury and magazine building, purchase of weaponry, telecommunication and security equipment.
An amount of `7.91 crore have been approved for offices and administrative buildings of various battalions. This includes Second Battalion based in Sakri (Bilaspur), Seventh Battalion based in Bhilai, 17th Battalion based in Kabeerdham and 18th Battalion based in Manendragarh.
The Department has approved `1.98 crore for each battalion. An amount of `1.75 crore have been approved for construction of multi-storey barracks in Fourth Battalion based at Mana.
Other than offices and administrative buildings, the Home Department is also paying attention on facilitation of residential quarters for officials-employees. Police Department has approved ` 40.16 crore for construction of residential buildings for officials and employees (including 200 non-gazetted and 304 constables) posted in various Battalions, based at Raipur, Koriya, Dhamtari, Janjgir-Champa, Mahasamund and Raigarh. Besides, `62.50 crore have been provisioned in previous fiscal year for construction of residential quarters of 144 non-gazetted and 676 constables in various districts of the State.
The State Government has approved `10.50 lakh for various administrative residential buildings in Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College, under 13th Finance Commission.