Ranchi, Oct 30 (Inditop.com) The Jharkhand government is looking for a contractor yet again to construct a hanging platform at Birsa Munda central jail here, after its last tender failed to elicit any response.
The Public Works Department (PWD) first time invited a tender in August for building a hanging platform in the new building where the jail was shifted. The new building on the outskirts of Ranchi can accomodate up to 3,500 prisoners against the previous jail building with a capacity of only 620.
Now, again the PWD has invited contactors through advertising in the local and national dailies.
“We received only one application when we invited tender for the second time this month. No one turned up when we invited tender first time in August. We are scrutinising the only one tender we have received and decision would be taken in two to three days,” PWD executive engineer P.K. Singh told IANS.
He said the hanging platform has to be designed on the lines of Alipur jail in Kolkata.
According to an official in the PWD department, two tenders were invited in August. First was for construction of a separate cell for prisoners awarded death penalty and the second one was for building a hanging platform. Both were Rs.2.6 lakh and Rs.1.7 lakh projects.
Three contractors offered to construct a separate cell for prisoners but no one turned up for building a hanging platform. As per provision, a person awarded death penalty is kept in a separate cell.
In two central jails, as many as seven people were given death penalty by the court.
“In Ranchi central jail, three convicts have been awarded death penalty and their sentences have been confirmed by the high court. They have appealed to the Supreme Court,” Superintendent of Birsa Munda central jail Deepak Vidhyarthi said.
