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Management of Borstal schools. Constitution, powers and duties of Visiting Committees. 14 [Act No.V of 1926] (c) to interview the inmates immediately after their arrival and to make suggestions, if any, as to the special training which each should receive; (d) to consider cases of release on licence under sub-section (1) of section 15 placed before them by the Superintendent; and (e) to consider such action as may be necessary in regard to the inmates whose term of detention is about to expire. (3) Subject to such rules as may be made in that behalf by the State Government every member of the Committee shall be entitled to call for information from the Superintendent, to examine the records of the school and to take such other action as he deems necessary for the due discharge of his duties. 19-C. (1) The inmates of a Borstal school shall be divided by the Superintendent according to their industry and good conduct into four grades, namely:- (1) the penal grade, (2) the ordinary grade, (3) the star grade, (4) the special star grade. (2) The privileges of each grade shall be higher than those of the grade preceding, if any. (3) Every inmate shall, on reception in a Borstal school, be placed in the ordinary grade. Classification of inmates. [Act No.V of 1926] 15 (4) The Superintendent may promote or reduce any inmate from one grade to another in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (5), the rules made under this Act and the general instructions of the Visiting Committee. (5) Promotions and reductions shall be regulated by close personal observations of the inmates and shall depend specially on their general behaviour, amenability to discipline and attention to instructions both literary and industrial. 19-D. (1) The punishments which may be inflicted on an inmate of a Borstal school for offences specified in the Prisons Act, 1894, and the rules made thereunder shall be in the following forms and in no other:- (i) Formal warning. (ii) Extra drill. (iii) Deprivation of any of the privileges of the grade. (iv) Reduction in grade. (v) Cuts on the hand by a rattan not exceeding six on each hand. 34[(vi) [XXX]] (2) No punishment shall be awarded to any inmate by any official of the school except by the Superintendent or in his absence the official exercising his functions.