(1) The guarding personnel shall consist of Head Warders, Warders including Female Warders.
(2) There shall be at least one guarding staff for every six prisoners and this ratio shall be followed in all three shifts. The staff engaged in the industries and other welfare activities shall be excluded while calculating the above ratio.
(3) Specific duties of each member of the guarding staff on various sections or points shall be assigned by the Superintendent on a rotation basis in keeping with the status of such staff within the cadre in the following areas, namely:-
(a) security, custody and discipline;
(b) searches and counting of prisoners;
(c) opening and locking-up of the prison;
(d) reporting defects and short comings in prison buildings, walls, locks, and lighting arrangements for taking immediate action for rectifying these and taking care of the custody of locks and keys, handcuffs and other security equipment;
(e) care and welfare of prisoners;
(f) maintenance of discipline in institutional premises, gates, quarantine, barracks, dormitories, cells, work sheds, punishment yards, segregation yards, hospital, kitchen, farm and in every other section of the institution;
(g) sanitation and hygiene in areas under his charge;
(h) guarding and sentry duties;
(i) escorting prisoners for work, supervision of their work, care and custody of tools, property, equipment, dead stock and livestock;
(j) supervision of distribution of food, canteen articles and inmate equipment;
(k) helping the technical personnel in work sheds, management and discipline, helping agricultural personnel in all related matters;
(l) keeping discipline in the areas where educational, cultural and recreational activities are conducted;
(m) reporting violations of discipline to appropriate officers for taking immediate action as per rules;
(n) observing habits and behavior patterns of inmates and reporting the same to the authorities concerned, helping inmates to improve their habits and attitudes;
(o) taking preventive and control measures for all emergency situations;
(p) ensuring discipline in staff quarters;
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(q) taking steps for physical training, drill parades and emergency practice;
(r) conducting interview of prisoners through video conferencing; and
(s) escorting the sick prisoners to outside hospital during emergency and to guard till deployment of Police escort.