He said this while interacting with media persons at Srinagar railway station from where he traveled to Sangaldan in the train that was virtually flagged off by PM Narendra Modi from a function in Jammu.
The Delhi government approves the formation of a committee to study technology and move forward towards its use.
DG, Jail, Anand Kumar on Tuesday said that the entire exercise would be completed by the end of February this year.
The inmates, especially women with children, have never got the care and attention from governments that are laid down in the constitution as their fundamental rights, not to mention hygiene, proper sanitation facilities, access to adequate water, clean drinking water, etc.
“The idea is to inculcate a habit of learning and education and to provide them an opportunity to utilize their time in prison in a productive manner,” says Jails Minister Harjot Singh Bains.
"We should hate crime and not the criminal. In such a situation, a better environment is being given to the prisoners in the jail premises for their improvement," said the CM.
One of the suggestions made by the experts for reducing the overcrowding in jails is that UTPs arrested for offences where the maximum sentence is 7 years or less, should be forthwith released on PR Bond, when unable to fulfill the monetary or ‘property’ bail condition, the HC bench observed.
According to State’s prison administration sources, at least 887 inmates were found to be positive from 1 May till 1 June.
According to a Prison Department spokesman, nearly 8,463 undertrials have been released on bail, while 1,660 convicts were given a six-week parole.
54 new cases take tally to 171
