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(1) Vocational training programs, in self-employment trades and occupations, shall be organized in every prison for convicts who are employable and desirous thereof. (2) Such programs shall be open for under-trial prisoners who are volunteer to undergo such training. HARYANA GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA.), DEC. 30, 2022 (PAUS. 9, 1944 SAKA) 1331 (3) The local industrial training Institutes shall be associated to assist in training the prisoners. (4) The prison shall have adequate staff for efficient organization of various training projects and it shall be properly equipped with training aids and classrooms for conducting multifarious projects to suit the training needs of the inmates. (5) The prison shall have a properly defined organization for training projects in terms of formation of homogeneous groups and setting down routine and time schedule for projects. (6) The cost incurred in the training projects, expenditure on staff, equipment and material, shall be treated as essential investment for the purpose of training and rehabilitation of offenders. (7) Special emphasis shall be given to the vocational training of adolescent offenders, first time offenders, and others who may stand to derive benefit from the training projects. (8) Qualified technical personnel shall be appointed in adequate numbers in every production unit and for every program of vocational training and such personnel may be posted in the prison on transfer or deputation basis from the industrial training Institutes or other Government Institutions engaged in such work, wherever possible. Qualified technical personnel may also be appointed on contract basis by the Director General. (9) Vocational training programs shall be designed to suit the needs of prisoners sentenced to short, medium and long term imprisonment. (10) Liaison shall be established with the department of Technical Education, Directorate of Industries (including Cottage Industries), Industrial Training Institutes, Polytechnics, Vocational Training Institutions and Director, Employment Mission to develop vocational training programs on a practical and pragmatic basis. (11) On the completion of vocational training courses, inmates shall be examined by the Department of Technical Education of the State and on passing the prescribed examination, it shall be ensured that the trainees are awarded a regular certificate or diploma by the department. (12) As a measure of “incentive” to inmates demonstrating good progress in work programs and vocational training, they shall be allowed to visit business undertakings of significance and other government owned industries. (13) The prison industry shall be given preferential treatment in the matter of granting permission or license or requisition to run various industrial or production units established by the Government and the executive and supervisory personnel shall be given training in modern methods of management. Duties of technical personnel.