Following infrastructural facilities in terms of agriculture shall be made available to the prisoners, namely:-
(a) Agriculture, agro-based industries and other allied activities shall be given high priority in the planned development of work programmes and vocational training in correctional institutions;
(b) The land available with an institution shall be thoroughly surveyed in terms of soil analysis, availability, fertility, salinity, and requirement of drainage, so that it is put to optimum use;
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(c) The help of Block Development Officers, officers of the State Agriculture Department or Horticulture Department and other allied agencies shall be taken in this regard;
(d) Each new prison building in rural areas shall have a properly fenced farm wherever land for this purpose is available;
(e) It shall be ensured that proper irrigation facilities are available at the farmland;
(f) The required building structure shall be constructed on each farm and internal roads should be laid;
(g) All required farming equipment and spare parts shall be made available on each farm and a maintenance shop shall also be set up in large farms;
(h) Prisoners detailed for labour at agricultural farms shall be distributed at various places in the farm by forming groups, with a leader nominated for each group;
(i) Guidelines shall be issued by the Prisons Headquarters stating the eligibility criteria of an inmate who may be deployed on open agricultural farms;
(j) The subsidy available to the farmers for purchasing fertiliser, equipment and electricity shall also be made available to prison farms;
(k) Adequate funds shall be provided for development of agriculture and allied activities and its accounts shall be maintained separately;
(l) Requisite security personnel shall be provided at each agricultural unit and their duties and responsibilities shall be clearly laid down;
(m) The farm products shall be first consumed in the prison and the remaining shall be sold to the Government departments and in the open market;
(n) The efficiency of each unit shall be evaluated annually in terms of the targets fixed and achieved;
(o) The number of prisoners employed in farming activities in closed prisons shall not exceed ten percent of total prison population;
(p) Prison personnel shall be imparted training in various aspects of agricultural and allied activities;
(q) Bio-gas plants, windmills or solar-cooking ranges shall be introduced in the prison farms;
(r) Costing of agricultural and other produce shall be done on strict commercial basis;
(s) Open agricultural institutions, and institutions having attached agricultural farms, shall diversify work programmes according to cropping schemes such as mixed farming, irrigated crops or dry farming; and
(t) In some open prisons work can be diversified into agricultural activity, industrial units and agro-based production units.
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