He said that a state-of-the-art jail will be built in Ludhiana at a cost of Rs 100 crore.
Punjab News (Aaj Samaj), Kapurthala: State jails minister Laljit Singh Bhullar said the government is particularly focusing on improving jails in the state. The Punjab government is installing jammers to stop the use of mobile phones inside 13 jails. The Jail Minister said that instead of making jail a place of imprisonment, it should be converted into a reformatory so that people with criminal tendencies can reform and reintegrate into the mainstream of society.
He said that to keep dangerous prisoners lodged in Punjab jails separate, a state-of-the-art high security jail is being constructed at a cost of Rs 100 crore in Gorsian Kader Baksh village of Ludhiana district, which is will complete. for next year.
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He participated in the fainting parade.
The jail minister, addressing the passing out parade of 173 guards and 6 matrons of the Punjab prison department at the Kapurthala in-service training centre, Bhullar said that with the security of prisons, the Punjab government, under the leadership of Chief Minister Shri Bhagwant Singh Mann, has taken many steps. Measures are being taken to provide employment to prisoners and make them partners in the economic progress of the society.
The Minister also informed that in order to increase the revenue of the prison department and provide work to prisoners according to their abilities, work on installing petrol pumps is being carried out in 12 prisons located on main roads. the Punjab Prison Development Board. He said that petrol pumps have been commissioned in 6 jails, while petrol pumps will be commissioned in 2 jails soon. Describing transparent recruitment as a priority area for the Punjab government, the Cabinet Minister said that 13 DSPs, 175 guards and 4 matrons would soon be recruited in the Prisons Department.
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