grams of washing powder per week, 140 grams of toilet soap fortnightly and 60 grams of mustard oil (for those who grow long hair) per week shall be used by each prisoner. These articles shall be issued only to those prisoners who cannot afford them]. Routine of prisoners on non-working days: Rule677. On Friday and holidays prisoners may be permitted to sit or lie about freely but quietly in the yards of their barracks or cells. Association will be allowed only amongst the prisoners usually confined in a particular barrack or yard. Prisoners may play games permissible under the rules in their own yards in the afternoons or may take walking exercises. Games: Rule 678. Prisoners are allowed to play indoor games such as carom, ludo and chess inside the barracks. Outdoors games such as Kabbaddi, wrestling, volleyball and football are also allowed for an hour in the evenings in the prison playground under proper supervision, if conditions permit it. Education: Rule 679. (i) Education upto primary standard shall be imparted to all illiterate prisoners daily for at least one hour by (vi) All prisoners shall be allowed soap and oil for toilet purposes at their own expense out of their private cash property or through their friends and relatives. (vii) A depilatory powder consisting of barium sulphide, one part, zine oxide, one part and starch, two parts shall be issued to women prisoners and other prisoners requiring it. Thus should be made into a paste before use and applied for removal of hair. Blades shall not be permitted to prisoners. Smoking of cigarettes: Rule 683. Prisoners are allowed to smoke cigarettes and biris at their own expense, but smoking inside the factories or while at work anywhere is prohibited. Convict officers on duty shall not smoke. Prisoners are. allowed to keep match boxes. Hookas shall not be permitted. Hanger Strikes: Rule 684. (i) Prisoners who go on hunger stricke shall be warned that requests for the redress on any alleged grievances shall not be considered at all so long as the strike continues, that hunger strike is a major prison offence, that a mass hunger strike amounts to mutiny and that hunger strikers are liable to be punished either with a prison punishment or by prosecution under section 52 of the 233