Jharkhand Victim Welfare Fund Rule 2014 is set to soar with the State Home department revising the wages for the working convicts in jails.
The Home department has hiked the wages for the convicts who come under three categories like skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled.
Home department has issued a notification in this regard. The hike has come into effect in all the jails in the State. (The Pioneer has a copy of this notification of Home department.)
According to this notification number 3608, dated 10.6.2015, a skilled convict is to get `144 a day for the works that he engages in the jail. Earlier it was `121 a day for the same skilled convict.
For semi skilled convict the wages a day for work is 113 rupees. It was 87 rupees earlier. And for the unskilled convict the revised wages is rupees 91 a day. It was 80 rupees earlier. Home department has increased the wages on the recommendation of Convict Wages Revision Committee which sat and recommended for a hike in wages and the Home department issued a notification.
This notification further reads that one third of the wages so earned by a convict will go to Jharkhand Victim Welfare Fund. A convict will get only two third of his earned wages. The presiding officer of Jharkhand Victim Welfare Fund is deputy commissioner of a district.
Under this welfare fund a sum of rupees 4,41 910 was disbursed among eleven victims here in Palamu said court sources. Court sources said only a convict is to work and earn wages. No UT ( under trial) can so earn at all in jail. Earning wages is the prerogative of a convict said sources.
The one third wages of the convict under this victim welfare fund is to go to the bank account of the victim.
An order signed by Suman Gupta IG Prisons dated January 21, 2016 read that the state government has approved the amount 4, 41, 910 for disbursement among 11 victims here and the jail superintendent is to personally ensure its monitoring.