HYDERABAD, July 7: Adviser to Chief Minister on Jails Gul Mohammad Jakhrani has said that 86 per cent of inmates in the province’s jails are under trail prisoners, whose number only keeps swelling due to shortage of judges and lack of legal advice.
Mr Jakhrani said at a clothes distribution ceremony among prisoners at the Central Jail on Monday that the government had decided to provide legal aid to the poor prisoners and request the chief justice of Sindh High Court to solve the problem of shortage of judges.
He claimed that the situation in jails, which used to be nurseries of crime, had greatly improved thanks to revolutionary steps by the present government and the day was not far when they would become reformatories.
He said that the prisoners were being imparted religious and formal education as well as training to enable them to earn respectable living after having gained release.
The provincial government was on the one hand trying to bring about amendments to jail manual to protect the prisoners’ rights and on the other taking steps to provide better facilities to jail staff by raising their salaries.
BAITUL MAAL: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that the deserving people who have died or migrated to other places but are still on the old lists of Baitul Maal, should be substituted with other deserving people and given the same assistance.
The nazim said at a meeting on Baitul Maal at his office on Sunday that the lists of deserving people should be scrutinised and the procedure for payment of money should be made simpler.
He pointed out that according to age-limit prescribed by the federal government, a widow of any age and a male member from 30 years to 60 years, were entitled to receiving financial assistance from Baitul Maal. Undeserving people should not apply for this assistance, he urged.
He said that the deserving people had to face a lot of difficulties in getting their funds and suggested that a separate Baitul Maal counter should be established at post offices to facilitate them.
The officials of the Baitul Maal informed the nazim that the 13th instalment of funds would be released soon. So far 6,766 deserving people had been registered and the registration of new applicants would be made at the office of the district nazim, DCO office, taluka nazims and union councils.
IT: The nazim has said that the district government was ready to cooperate for the promotion of information technology in the district.
He said at the sixth anniversary of “Apna Hyderabad Website” at Shelter Centre on Sunday that the basic purpose of education was personality development and training of children to enable them to face the challenges of practical life.
He said that the information technology greatly helped in building a student’s character and polishing his latent talents. The district government was taking a number of steps for the promotion of information technology to facilitate students, he added.
The director of the website Furqan Darvesh, project manager Asim Hussain, office manager Tahseen Nagori and others were present at the ceremony.
CONDOLENCES: Senior Minister for Education Sindh, Pir Mazharul Haq on Sunday visited the residence of PPP Sindh council member, Mohammad Usman Kennedy, and offered Fateha on the demise of his mother. A large number of PPP activists gathered outside the house of the PPP leader.
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