(1) The work programmes shall also include essential institutional maintenance services like culinary, sanitary and hygienic services, prison hospital, other prison services, repairs and maintenance services.
(2) Prison work programmes shall consist of services required by the community such as construction work, masonry, carpentry, plumbing, electric fitting, tailoring, fabrication of ready-made garments, leather work, prison servicing, agriculture, horticulture, dairy, poultry, floriculture, cane work, basket making, pottery, book binding, typing, computeroperating, handicrafts, stenography, cloth printing, embroidery, hosiery, bakery, namkeen making, paper making, printing, tailoring, weaving, soap making, candle making, toy making, mobile repairing, Computer repairing, food processing, and beautyparlor.
(3) A barber shop or Salon may be established in all jails as per requirement.
(4) On Sundays, all the prisoners shall attend to the general cleanliness of the jail and wash and repair their cloths and put everything in order for the weekly parade on Monday.
(5) Jail labour may be utilized,—
(a) for the preparation of building materials with the jail premises;
(b) for the construction of large works under the Public Works Department, such works within the jail premises;
(c) otherwise the employment of prisoners beyond the jail premises is prohibited except on rare occasions it is deemed expedient to employ convicts on large works under the Public Works Department at such a 645 राजस्ााू राज-पत्र दिसम् बर 12 2022 भाग 4 (ग) distance from the jails that accommodation on the spot must be provided and no prisoners are to be employed extramurally on station roads and municipal works, nor shall any prisoners be hired to private individuals for employment outside the jail premises.
(6) The total number of menial servants employed regularly i.e. cooks, hospital attendant, barbers, water-carriers, and sweepers shall not exceed ten per cent of the whole number of prisoners in jails.
(7) Every convict on being first put to do any kind of work shall be allowed a reasonable time in which to acquire the skill necessary for the performance of the prescribed task and if during this time he shows due diligence and makes satisfactory progress he shall be allowed the remission for industry.
(8) The time necessary for working up to a full task shall depend upon the nature of the work and for work like oil pressing, grinding, yarn reeling or twisting, a few days experience will be sufficient and a full task shall then be exacted.
(9) In industries, needing greater skill, such as weaving, carpet or durry-making, it may be three months or more before a prisoner can give a full task, according to his intelligence, and care shall be taken to make due allowance, in estimating a convict’s progress, for difference of mental and physical capacity.
(10) In every case, when allotting to a prisoner new work (whether on admission or subsequently) the Superintendent, or subject to his control, the Jailor, shall note on the prisoner’s History Ticket the exact task he is to begin with, and subsequently every increase required, up to the full task.
(11) All labour exacted from prisoners shall be classified as “hard”, “medium” or “light”, according to the amount of physical exertion required for the performance of a fixed task, and the maximum tasks which shall be exacted from any prisoner shall be fixed and the task or proportion of task or special labour which each prisoner is physically fitted to perform is determined by the Medical Officer and no prisoner shall be caused to perform any harder labour than that fixed by the Medical Officer and entered from time to time on his history ticket.
(12) Frequent change of work, except on medical grounds, shall be avoided, but the harder forms of labour like oil pressing shall not be continued indefinitely without variation, and sedentary work shall occasionally be changed for work involving more general movement.
(13) It is expected that every Superintendent shall be acquainted with the tasks to be exacted from his prisoners.
(14) No general reduction of the tasks fixed in rules shall be allowed in any jail without the sanction of the Inspector General.
(15) In allotting labour to a prisoner and fixing his task the jailor must be guided by the record of fortnightly weightments in his ticket.
(16) Prisoners shall commence work as soon as the morning parades and distribution of prisoners into gangs shall have been completed, ordinarily this should be within one hour after opening the wards.
(17) The period of labour shall be from 8.00 A.M. to 11.30 A.M. and 12.30 P.M. to 4.00 P.M. with a rest of one hour from 11.30 A.M. to 12.30 P.M.
(18) All prisoners with sentences of six months and under shall be eligible for extramural work, but they shall not be so employed unless they have been in jail at least a month as a convict.
(19) In cases of prisoners of this category who have been in jail as under-trial prisoners for at least a month prior to their conviction they may be employed extramurally after the observation period of ten days.
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(20) In case of convicts sentenced for life imprisonment, after completion of four years of sentences including under-trial period, shall be eligible to work in extramural gang.
(21) In every case before initialing the entry in the history ticket, the Superintendent shall satisfy himself, by a reference to the prisoner’s conduct in jail and the nature of the offence for which he is imprisoned, that he is a fit person for such employment.
(22) Prisoners who have shown, or are likely to have, a strong inclination to escape or are members of wandering or criminal tribe, even though eligible, shall not be employed on extramural work.
(23) The report of the Head Warder or Warder about the behavior and conduct of prisoners shall also be considered prior to utilizing a prisoner for extramural gang.
(24) Every convict of the habitual class shall, throughout the period of imprisonment to which he or she is sentenced, be required to perform the severest form of hard labour which he is capable of performing, with due regard to his or her health.
(25) No consideration of profit or convenience shall be permitted to influence, the class or from labour, which any convict sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment is at any time required to perform. It shall be fixed with reference solely to the health of the convict and the regulations of the prison regarding the employment of prisoners.
(26) A standard list of equipments, tools, accessories and spare parts, which each production unit must always have, should be prepared and maintained.
(27) In every institution there shall be a separate and properly organized maintenance workshop to repair the machinery and equipment in time and to prevent breakdown.
(28) Products manufactured by prison industries shall be varied or changed depending on market trends and demands.
(29) The organization of accounts and inventory shall be modernized on business lines.