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Four more jails likely to come up in State in four years

Trained assistant jailors participating in passing out parade in Berhampur on Wednesday.

BERHAMPUR: Four new jails are proposed to be set up in Sundergarh, Baripada, Cuttack, and Koraput in the State in coming four years.

Inspector-General (IG) of State (prisons) Pranabindu Acharya informed it to newsmen during his visit to the city to attend the sixteenth passing out parade of assistant jailers at the Jail Training School in the city.

Capacity

Each of the new jails would have capacity to house 500 prisoners.

Only convicts would be placed in these jails. He also said that a project worth Rs. 100 crore was mooted and placed before the State government for the improvement of security, infrastructure, sanitation, and health in Orissa jails.

Mr. Acharya took the salute of the passing out parade in which 40 assistant jailers who completed their training took part. They included 25 men and 15 women.

Seven jail welfare officers, including a woman, who also completed training in the school also took part in the passing out parade.

Jail inspector Biswabhanu Patnaik, who trained the trainees, led the parade.

Newly trained assistant jailers were also congratulated by their training havildars Subhakant Choudhury, Prataprudra Satpathy, and Motilal Rana.

The passing out parade was attended by Deputy Inspector- General (DIG) of prisons Dharanidhar Dash, Jail Training School principal Bira Kishor Dash, and senior superintendent of Berhampur circle jail Gopabandhu Mallik.

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