(1) The Technical Personnel shall be responsible for the development of vocational training and diversified programmes of productive work as an important component of the reformative process.
(2) While technically qualified and trained staff has to provide knowledge and skills for economic rehabilitation, the other technical staff shall ensure proper maintenance of the prison infrastructure.
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(3) Technical Personnel’s shall perform their functions in the following areas, namely:—
(a) giving vocational aptitude test to inmates, interviewing and collecting data about inmates, vocational history, skills abilities and interests;
(b) suggesting work and vocational training programmes for inmates;
(c) preparing plans for vocational training projects;
(d) imparting apprenticeship, on the job and vocational training to inmates;
(e) utilizing resources of service and maintenance unit for training purposes;
(f) arranging arts and handicrafts projects;
(g) arranging vocational examinations for inmates;
(h) training of newly admitted prisoners;
(i) maintaining progress reports about the training of prisoners;
(j) suggesting improvements in work methods;
(k) keeping the equipments and machines in the workshop in good working condition, custody and maintenance of shops and factories;
(l) ensuring safety measures in workshops and factory areas;
(m) maintenance of discipline in the area under their charge, attending to emergency situations;
(n) distribution of work to inmates;
(o) maintaining muster rolls of inmates working in various sections;
(p) supplying inmates with production tools and materials;
(q) supervision over quality and quantity of production;
(r) maintaining work sheets;
(s) measuring tasks and apportioning wages;
(t) indenting raw material from the Store Keeper, storing raw material in their charge, maintaining accounts of raw material and manufactured articles in their charge, despatch of manufactured articles to the Store Keeper, monthly checking of stores under their charge and reporting the same to the authorities concerned; and
(u) preparing work plans for work-sheds under their control and forwarding them to the officer in charge.