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(1) The Director General shall constitute a committee to recommend sites for new prison. The site recommended by the committee shall be subjected to the approval of the Director General. If the Director General accepts the committee’s recommendation then the matter shall be referred to the Government for its sanction. (2) While selecting the site for new prisons, factors like transport facilities, water supply, electric lighting, connections with high power electric transmission lines, drainage and sewage, approved means of communication facilities (such as posts, telephones and internet), climatic conditions, facilities for the purchase of institutional supplies, proximity to institutions like court, civil hospital, mental health centre, schools for children of staff members shall preferably be taken into consideration. Additionally, the site for new prisons shall not be near easily flooded and inundated areas, frontiers and international borders, airports and congested urban localities. Prison architecture norms for construction of new prison building.