position is that overcrowding would be solved by completion of the already-sanctioned barracks as also barracks to be sanctioned in the coming Financial Year. It is said that free sanitary pads are being provided to the women prisoners and an incinerator machine has also been installed for their disposal. It is informed that adequate arrangements for toilets and bathrooms in the women’s cells and for night toilets in the barracks has been made, to handle cleanliness and hygiene. The State submits that adequate water facilities are in place. For children living with female prisoners, who are detained in jail, it is stated that nutritious food, clothes and medical facilities as per the relevant jail rules are being provided. Babies are provided clothes, food and milk on the advice of the doctor. Baby-kit clothes, soap, oil, powder, mosquito net, rexine, etc., are being given for new-born baby/ies. A crèche has been arranged in the jails for children. Children above the age of six years,