Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 19: Justice Tashi Rabstan, Executive Chairman, J&K Legal Services Authority accompanied by Sanjay Parihar, Principal District & Sessions Judge (Chairman, DLSA) Jammu, Amit Kumar Gupta, Member Secretary, J&K Legal Services Authority, Prem Sagar, Secretary, HCLSC, Smriti Sharma , Secretary, DLSA Jammu, Kulbir Handa, SP City visited Louis Braille Memorial School for Sightless Girls, Roopnagar where he was accorded warm welcome by Nivedita Shukla, Overall Incharge, Radika Chopra, Warden and other staff members of the school.
Justice Tashi Rabstan had a detailed interaction with the staff and the girls residing in the school.
The incharge of the school requested Justice Tashi to impress upon the to exempt the school from payment of electricity bill as the same is a Social and Non-Profit organization. On this occasion, SP City, promised to donate a fully automatic washing machine to the school. He also assured to arrange an outing (Picnic) for the inmates of the school.
Later, Justice Tashi Rabstan visited the Central Jail, Kot Bhalwal, where he was received by Superintendent Jail, SP Rural, SHO Gharota, Anil Sharma, Chief LADC Jammu and other officers/officials of Police and CRPF.
The Executive Chairman, J&K LSA enquired about the number of convicts serving their sentences and also about the undertrial prisoners belonging to UT of J&K as well as other States and foreign nationals.
Justice Tashi inspected the barracks, dining and kitchen area, e-mulakatcenter, VC facility, 10 bedded hospital, vocational centers, STD facility andMini stadium.All the inmates of the jail during interaction admitted that they are being served proper diet by the jail staff and are being represented in their respective cases by the lawyers either engaged by them or provided by Legal Services Authority.
Justice Tashi Rabstan also visited the newly installed inhouse bakery in the jail which as per Superintendent would be made operational very soon.
Justice Tashi also inspected the Legal Aid Clinic established in the jail where 02 PLVs namely Darshan Lal and Gaurav Sharma were present, who expressed gratitude to the Executive Chairman for increasing the number of working days from 10 to 20 days in a month.
Justice Tashi recorded satisfaction regarding the facilities provided to the jail inmates and also urged the PLVs to work with dedication and ensure that the benefits of schemes launched for welfare of jail inmates reaches to them.
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