HYDERABAD, March 8: A judicial complex and a hospital should be established in the Hyderabad central jail premises to ensure legal and medical facilities to its inmates.
This was recommended to the Sindh government by the district prison committee at its first meeting held here on Saturday.
The eight member committee — comprising legal, social and administrative experts — also recommended that a building available at the prison for special courts should be utilized for trial of common prisoners and a jail ward at the Civil Hospital should be immediately established till the recommendations were implemented.
The committee demanded an early completion of construction of prisons in Dadu and Badin to reduce burden on the Hyderabad central jail.
It expressed concern over miserable conditions of Darul Aman and directed the assistant director, social welfare, to prepare a plan for its development.
The EDO, community development, Hyderabad, Mohammad Ibrahim Qureshi, who is secretary of the committee, in his briefing, pointed out several irregularities in the prison. The irregularities included overcrowding, non-production of prisoners in courts, lack of hygienic conditions, sub-standard food, absence of medical facilities and use of handcuffs and solitary confinement.
The jail superintendent, Nawaz Hussain, said that due to shortage of staff, only 25 prisoners were being produced in courts against a hearing call for 70 prisoners.
He also pointed out that only Rs100,000 was received every year for medicines for the prisoners.
The committee recommended that at least Rs500,000 should be allocated for purchase of emergency medicines.
The chairman of the committee, Nawab Rashid Ali Khan, said that literacy and vocational training centres would be established at both the central and Nara jails.
He directed the prison authorities to complete the construction of women’s ward as soon as possible.
SCHOLARSHIP: The Sindh government has extended last date for submission of application forms for poverty-cum-merit scholarship up to March 15.
This has been announced by the director, research and assessment, Sindh.
He has advised the students, who have passed HSC part-II in 2002 and secured at least 60 per cent marks from any board of Sindh and are studying Medicines, Engineering, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, English, Economics, Business Administration and Computer Science, to submit their application forms for the scholarship up to March 15 at his office in Jamshoro.
PROMOTION: Ghulam Rasool Mangi, deputy general manager, STR-V, Sukkur, has been promoted and posted as the general manager, STR-V, Sukkur, in place of Syed Mureed Ali Shah, said a notification of the PTCL.
