Port Blair, Aug. 10: The President Pradesh Congress Committee, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma today met the Chief Secretary Shri Anand Prakash and briefed him about the pathetic condition of the District Jail. He said that the convicts and under trials exceed the capacity of the Jail and due to overcrowding, the prisoners are facing troubles in many ways.

Sharma also pointed out that the local prisoners are made to share the rooms with the foreign convicts who spread many new diseases. Their way of living also differs from the Indians which irk them.

The PCC President further said that the under trials and convicts have right to lead a healthy life style and hence requested to keep the foreign poachers away from the local inmates.

Shri Anand has assured that he will take immediate action to keep the poachers and local inmates separately and also increase the capacity of the District Jail very shortly, a Gandhi Bhawan communication said here.