Nafrul Hasan
Sylhet Central Prison will be operating from this December, confirmed executive engineer Sheikh Mizanur Rahman. Till now, the jail authority have been struggling to ensure the basic needs of their prisoners in the current central jail. This new modern prison can facilitate up to 2000 prisoner at a time. This huge prison stands on 30 ekr land. That is 15 kilometers out of Sylhet city, located at Badghat. The project was initiated by the Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhit, on August 2011. Translated by: Eshan Maitra