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| J&K jails pathetic; lack manpower, infrastructure | | Residential accommodation just for blessed ones! | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 17: Jails in Jammu and Kashmir are facing serious shortage of manpower, residential accommodation and specially trained officials.
This is despite state government's claims of having made Jails reformation centers for those convicted for various crimes by providing them with requisite infrastructure. According to the report of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Jails across Jammu and Kashmir are facing extreme shortage of manpower.
Against 17 sanctioned posts of DG/Additional DG/ Additional IG/DIG/Superintendent; only 9 are in place. The posts of Additional DG and Additional IG are vacant since long. Ask for the reasons and you are told that police officers consider posting in the Department of Jails as punishment and prefer posting in Crime, CID and Police department. Interestingly, of late, J&K government has been posting retiring or seniormost police officers as DG Prisons.
Earlier, they would post the seniormost police officers as DG (Civil and Military Liaison) or another dumping ground used to be IG (Human Rights). But after the seniormost IPS officer P.L.Gupta who was not chosen to head the state police despite having an upright record, state has found new place to post politically unfit police officers and that is Department of Jails, where onus is on filling the posts and not on improving the lot of prisoners in the Jails.
Department of Jails has 35 posts of DySPs/Deputy Jailors/Jailors/Assistant Jailors; of these 10 are vacant. This is serious shortage considering the fact that these officials have to deal with prisoners on daily basis and if equipped with requisite infrastructure and manpower, they are the ones who are directly responsible for making Jails reformation centers. But either the government is not serious or those heading the department of Jails take little or no interest in doing justice with the duty assigned to them.
Officials accept that it is the duty of those heading the department to ensure officials and other staff members are available in requisite numbers to ensure both safety and security of the inmates alongwith fulfilling the agenda of reformation. What makes the matters worse is the fact that even these officials who are working in the Department of Jails are facing innumerable problems.
Of the many problems, one of the major concern of these officials is the extreme shortage of staff quarters for both the executive as well as ministerial cadre. 32 officers of the executive care have been allotted 34 residential quarters while the staff of the executive cadre whose number is 663 has been assigned 173 residential quarters. A simple analysis of the figures indicates that the number of residential quarters is 3 times lesser than the number of staff members in the executive care.
This serious shortage has remained unaddressed since long. None in the state government especially in the Department of Home has ever bothered to look into this issue of providing required residential accommodation to the staff members of the executive cadre. More appalling is the condition of ministerial cadre. Home department is yet to provide residential accommodation to the two officers of the ministerial cadre working in the department of Jails. No residential quarter has been allotted to them.
There are 63 staff members in the ministerial cadre. State government has provided them 4 residential quarters. These four residential quarters are allotted to the blessed ones, leaving the rest to fend for themselves. State government had recently proposed to construct more Jails but without lying out any framework for providing the existing ones with requisite manpower and infrastructure. |
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