Ministry for Peace and Reconstruction allotted Rs 23.6 million in this year´s budget for the construction of the building which will have infrastructures and facilities required for a correction home. [break]
The modern building will have two female and one male cell, bathroom, library, conference hall, visitors´ block and a shop, according to consultant agency of the construction Town Development and Building Construction Division Office.
"The actual cost of the construction was estimated at Rs 33.2 million but GM Construction offered to undertake the project at 30 percent discounted rate," said division chief Ravi Ratna Shakya. Shakya said the construction will be completed by April, 2011.
Jail department said the concept of correction home will be implemented once the construction of physical infrastructure is completed. "It is more of a torture home now overcrowded inmates around three times its capacity," jailer Om Prasad Chapain stated. "More than 75 are kept in the prison that has been built for 25," Chapain added.
The inmates have long been demanding toilet, drinking water, library and other facilities in the prison. The prison will be able to accommodate 66 male and 23 female inmates after the new building is constructed.
Jailer Chapain believes construction of library, sports ground and conference hall will help in intellectual growth of the inmates thereby playing a pivotal role in their transformation.
Minister of State for Peace and Reconstruction Dilli Bahadur Mahat, who laid the foundation stone, also urged the prisoners there to start a new clean life by learning from past mistakes.
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