Objects and functions of the Board

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the following are the objects and functions of the Board, namely:- (a) to reduce the financial liability of the Government exchequer by identifying and ensuring new means of revenue generation; (b) to undertake programmes and schemes for betterment of prisoners, including but not limited to, education, vocational or skill training, manufacturing activities, agriculture, poultry, dairy or fish farming, horticulture and such other occupational, commercial, industrial, sports and welfare activities which helps in developing prisons as correctional centres; (c) to enhance the living conditions of the prisoners in all the prisons with specific reference to their basic needs and provision of facilities compatible with the dignity of human life; (d) to reform and re-assimilate prisoners in the social milieu by giving them appropriate correctional treatment; (e) to provide an enabling environment to the prisoners and help them in such a way so that they may be able to lead a sustainable and productive life as law-abiding citizens after their release; (f) to upgrade the resources for efficient management of prisons, and wherever required, by way of acquisition of assets, whether movable or immovable, including computers, communication facilities, gadgets, vehicles, security or surveillance equipment, video-conferencing based trial facilities etc.; (g) to ensure the welfare of the officers and employees of the Prisons Department and the Board. (2) For the efficient discharge of the duties entrusted to it, the Board shall exercise such powers and perform such functions as are conferred, or imposed under this Act or the rules made there under.