DC Sunil Kumar reviewed the security arrangements of JP central jail in a meeting held in his office chamber on Monday in which SP Akhilesh Jha, Jail Superintendent Rupam Prasad, Jailor, SDO, DSP and other concerned officials were present.
In the meeting, DC directed the jail officials to increase the vigilance activity inside the premises. He also asked to depute 25 jawans on towers, provide video conferencing facility in the jail and to give e-mulakat service to the jail inmates.
Kumar asked officials to write to other jails to recommend the names of those inmates who are fit to be transferred in open jail and to provide guards from the home district of those inmates under treatment in RIMS or elsewhere, to arrange proper security of inmates during their transportation to courts or elsewhere and to start more manufacturing units of different items to give work to the inmates.
DC also directed the officials of district administration to purchase items manufactured by jail inmates at the rate approved by the High Court. He also suggested to start tailoring unit in open jail which will help in supplying school dresses to Government schools. He directed SDO Sandeep Kumar to measure the land of JP central jail and to remove encroachment if any and to declare no stoppage zone for private vehicles in front of jail campus.