Kathmandu December 16.The inmates in the Syangja District Jail have been complaining of a number of problems they have been facing since long, one among them being lack of drinking water, sanitation facilities as well as adequate space for sleeping. Chief Jailor Chudamani Bhandari shared that the Jail has been accommodating more inmates than its actual capacity, consequently leading to poor sanitation hygiene and lack of drinking water facility. The Jail has capacity to house 50 inmates while a total of 157 inmates are currently been doing their times in the Jail. Of them 11 are women while the rest others are men, according to the jail administration. Inmate Durga Prasad Chapagain bemoaned, “Since our jail is overcrowded, we have to wait for nearly for one hour for our turn to use toilet in the peak hours.” Another jailbird Dinesh Gurung lamented that in lack of adequate space inside the jail, they have to take turns even to sleep. Chief Jailor Bhandari explained that due to the narrow structure of the jail’s building accommodating disproportionate number of jail birds, the Jail faces issues time to time. The administration here has been bringing this dire situation to the knowledge of the concerned authority in the higher-ups but to no avail, said Bhandari. Furthermore, he shared that the jail has not been able to provide timely medical services to the inmates when they are taken ill. The inmates here are reported taken ill mostly from the usage contaminated water and poor sanitation facility.