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CCTV for Tihar this year

Staff Reporter

Also to get piped gas from Indraprastha Gas by May

258 cameras, control rooms in
all jails
IGL gas to get rid of cylinders, a major threat

NEW DELHI: Asia’s largest prison complex, Tihar Central Jail, is all set to get a modern closed-circuit television system with 258 cameras, control rooms in all jails and a centralised control room by mid-February.

Also, the complex would be supplied with piped natural gas by Indraprastha Gas Limited by May and this would help it get rid of gas cylinders which can pose a major threat in the event of a fire, Director-General (Prisons) B.K. Gupta said on Thursday while addressing the annual press conference.

The official also informed that the jail authorities had sent reports to the Government seeking action against a Resident Medical Officer for showing favours to a terrorist in lieu of financial gains. Noting that 33 inmates had died during the year, Mr. Gupta said in four of the cases FIRs had been registered. Outlining various other developments and achievements, Mr. Gupta said following the death of some inmates in June 2007, the Delhi High Court had played a crucial role in introducing plea bargaining in the prison complex which had led to the release of about 650 inmates since. With this and release of various other category of inmates, he said, the prison population had dropped significantly from 13,700 to 11,300 in the past six months and this was now at the 2001 level.

He said construction of another jail at Mandoli with 3,600 capacity would start in April 2008 and transfer of land for two more jails at Narela and Bapraula is being speeded up by the Delhi High Court.

For the welfare of the inmates, he said, a number of steps have been initiated. The wages of the inmates have been increased from Rs.10 to Rs.40 for the unskilled, Rs.12 to Rs.44 for the semi-skilled and Rs.16 to Rs.52 for the skilled following a Delhi Government notification. A

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