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Surat, Rajkot to get central jails
Surat will soon get a central jail, under a Rs 65-crore expansion project by the state govt in its bid to reduce congestion in the 23 prisons across the state.
As per the new plan, two new district jails are being set up at Navsari and Rajpipla and also in adjacent Dahod.
State principal secretary (home) KC Kapoor said the government has appointed the Gujarat Police Housing Board as the nodal agency for construction of jails. The first jail to be constructed by the board would be the Surat Central Jail.
A sum of Rs 8 crore has been earmarked for the proposed new central jail at Lajpore area of the diamond city. A major expansion plan for the Rajkot Jail has also been undertaken while renovation of Gondal and Bhuj jail is likely to be completed in the next four months.
The open jail at Amreli is also being expanded to accommodate more prisoners. State principal secretary (home) KC Kapoor said that the ongoing expansion and renovation of jails would be completed by May, when more than 10,000 to 12,000 prisoners would be kept in the jails which are at present overcrowded. At present, there are 23 jails with the capacity of more than 6,000 prisoners.
Referring to the modernisation of jails, he said that six more jails in the state would soon have a video-conferencing facility linking them with the courts like in Ahmedabad and Vadodara central jails.
In the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad, a new jail has been constructed exclusively to accommodate over 700 undertrials.
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