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New construction of main gate and blocks near to the main gate shall ordinarily be based on the following norms, namely: – (a) dimension of main gate shall be at least fourteen feet in width and sixteen feet in height so that a fire tender, concrete mixer truck vehicle or a borewell rig shall pass through it. The main gate shall be a double gate arrangement made up of a strong steel frame having vertical round or square steel bars of twenty-five mm diameter or thickness. Space between two gates will not be less than sixty feet in length and fifty feet in width and eighteen feet in height to facilitate gate operations. Each gate shall have a wicket- gate of at least three feet in width and seven feet in height. The main gate and the wicket-gates shall have strong locking arrangements from inside. Both gates shall have arrangements for easy opening and closing of shutters. The gates shall be covered with iron sheet from outside up to the height of ten feet. The wicket-gates shall have peepholes covered with lead at eye level; (b) there shall be a properly designed administrative block for each category of prison adjacent to the main gate and shall have office rooms, record rooms, store room, conference hall, common rooms and control rooms for efficient functioning of the administration. Adjacent to the administrative block shall be the interview room and visitor’s hall with cloak-room and toilet with a separate entrance to the hall from outside; HARYANA GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA.), DEC. 30, 2022 (PAUS. 9, 1944 SAKA) 1395 (c) there shall be a reception ward, near the main gate which shall have necessary facilities for proper implementation of admission-quarantine-orientation-classification programme. It shall have separate barracks for under trial prisoners and convicts, few individual cells, open working shed, and an office; (d) The main gate shall be suitably painted with colours. Central control room.