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6. Need to make our jails self-reliant by strengthening vocational<br />

training programme in prisons through privatization/self contracting<br />

basis.<br />

7. Proper recognition to Indian Prison Service <strong>and</strong> cadre/career<br />

planning for prison <strong>of</strong>ficer at the national level.<br />

8. Need to develop st<strong>and</strong>ard model plan for constructing new prisons.<br />

9. Need to replace Indian Prison Act, 1894 by a new legislation<br />

followed by a new Model Prison Manual for maintaining uniformity in the<br />

working <strong>of</strong> prisons through out the country.<br />

10. Modernization <strong>of</strong> correctional training in order to have quality<br />

management in prisons.<br />

All proposals <strong>and</strong> letters are addressed to the Director General <strong>of</strong> <strong>Bureau</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Police</strong> <strong>Research</strong> <strong>and</strong> Development relating to <strong>Research</strong> <strong>and</strong> the<br />

Correctional Administration Directorate are earmarked to the<br />

Director/Inspector General <strong>and</strong> in his absence, to the Deputy Director or<br />

the Assistant Director supervising the activities <strong>of</strong> the Correctional<br />

Administration Directorate. The proposals/letters are diarised in the<br />

Central Diary Section <strong>of</strong> the BPR&D. The papers are processed in<br />

concerned Section <strong>and</strong> put up to the respective head <strong>of</strong> the Directorate.<br />

Modernization Directorate<br />

The Modernization Directorate was set up in 1970. The Directorate is<br />

headed by a Director, an <strong>of</strong>ficer <strong>of</strong> the rank <strong>of</strong> Inspector General <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Police</strong> <strong>and</strong> is assisted by a Deputy Director, three Sr. Scientific Officers<br />

<strong>and</strong> two Sr. Scientific Assistants.<br />

The Directorate has been augmented in 2009 in terms <strong>of</strong> manpower<br />

providing more posts in various fields i.e. posts <strong>of</strong> Principal Scientific<br />

Officers, Senior Scientific Officers <strong>and</strong> Senior Scientific Assistants in the<br />

field <strong>of</strong> Explosives/Ballistics, Weapons, Uniform Accoutrement, Life<br />

Sciences, Building & Design, Electronics, Traffic & Transport.<br />

The Directorate undertakes liaison with the National Laboratories, other<br />

scientific organizations <strong>and</strong> Institutions <strong>and</strong> Public <strong>and</strong> Private Sector<br />

Undertakings in the above fields, coordination <strong>of</strong> modernization<br />

programmes <strong>and</strong> stimulating indigenous production <strong>of</strong> <strong>Police</strong> equipment<br />

<strong>and</strong> system.<br />

The Modernization Directorate is expected to keep abreast with<br />

modernizations in the application <strong>of</strong> science <strong>and</strong> technology to police<br />

work in India <strong>and</strong> other countries, <strong>and</strong> study new procedures <strong>and</strong><br />

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