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Sri Biswanath Chowdhury

MIC, Deptt. of Correctional Admin., Women & Child Development and Social Welfare Departments

Sri Biswanath Chowdhury of Revolutionary Socialist Party has been functioning as Minister-in-Charge, Department of Jails, West Bengal since 1987. He has been elected from Balurghat Assembly Constituency of Dakshin Dinajpur District seven times in a row since 1977. Apart from the Deptt of Jails, he is also the Minister-in-Charge of Women & Child Development and Social Welfare Departments of Government of West Bengal.

Sri Samar Ghosh, IAS

Addl. Chief Secretary, Home & Deptt of Correctional Administration

Sri Samar Ghosh, a 1977 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre who assumed charge as Addl Chief Secretary, Home on 30th April, 2010 has also been entrusted with additional charge of Deptt of Correctional Administration. Some of the important charges held by him in the past include the charge of District Magistrate of Murshidabad District apart from those of Principal Secretary, Finance Deptt and Addl Chief Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Deptt. With his assuming charge of the Deptt of Correctional Administration, the ongoing reforms are likely to get a boost.

Sri Banshi Dhar Sharma, IPS

ADGP & IG of Correctional Services, West Bengal

A 1980 Batch IPS Officer of West Bengal cadre, Sri B.D.Sharma has held a number of important charges in Police Deptt including the charge of Addl. S.P., Barrackpore, SP, Murshidabad and South-24 Parganas Districts and Deputy Commissioner of Police in Calcutta Police for 5 years before being promoted as D.I.G of Police. He also worked in BSF as DIG at Jaisalmer and as IG in Jammu & Kashmir - both charges being on Indo-Pak border. He took charge as Inspector General of Correctional Services, West Bengal on Nov 7, 2005 and promoted as ADG of Police on January 23, 2009 while continuing to hold the same charge as ADGP & IG of Correctional Services.

Correctional Homes

All jails have been designated as "Correctional Homes" in the state and are now governed by the West Bengal Correctional Services Act, 1992

West Bengal has 54 correctional homes and one Training Institute
Central Correctional Homes	6
Open Air Correctional Home	1
District Correctional Homes	12
Special Correctional Homes	3
Women's Correctional Homes	2
Sub-Correctional Homes	30
Total	54

Total Registered Capacity of Prisoners in the State
Male	18880
Female	1592
Total	20472

Average Occupancy for Males	92%
Average Occupancy for Females	8%