Bhojraj Bista, Sub-Engineer of the Intensive Urban and Building Construction Project, Doti, said that an agreement has been signed with KKJ Kalika SB JV Sukedhara for the construction of a new building for the Baitadi Prison Office for Rs. 79.771 million.
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Prisoners and detainees in Baitadi Prison are to be transferred. Prison Office Baitadi Chief Dhara Bhandari said that the prisoners and detainees are being transferred as a new building of the prison office is to be constructed.
"Thunuwa will be transferred to Dadeldhura Prison," she said, adding that preparations are underway to transfer the prisoners to Darchula, Dadeldhura and Kanchanpur prisons. She said that the Intensive Urban and Building Construction Project Office, Rajpur, Doti has already signed an agreement with the construction company for the construction of the building, so the prisoners and detainees will be transferred within the first week of Mangsir.
Baitadi Prison, which was built in 2040 BS, is dilapidated. There was a compulsion to keep prisoners and detainees in the dilapidated prison building beyond its capacity. The prison, which has a capacity to hold 25 people, including 15 men and 10 women, currently houses 60 prisoners and detainees. There is no space to keep female prisoners elsewhere, so there is a compulsion to send them.
An agreement has been reached with KKJ Kalika SB JV Sukedhara for the construction of a new building for the Baitadi Prison Office, Sub-Engineer Bhojraj Bista of the Intensive Urban and Building Construction Project, Doti, said. 'An agreement has been reached with the construction company on Asoj 29,' he said, 'The construction of the prison building should be completed by Asad 15, 2084.'
He said that a prison building with a capacity of 85 male prisoners will be constructed in the first phase. The Intensive Urban and Building Construction Project Office, Rajpur, Doti, has stated that the estimated cost for the construction of the building is Rs 99,947,627.
