the Commission intends to organize more such courses in the future.3.56 Apart from conditions in prisons, the Commission has increasingly focused its attention on the desperate conditions prevailing in other institutions under the control of State Governments "where persons are detained or lodged for purposes of treatment, reformation or protection." 3.57 Following reports of the death of a young boy in a juvenile home in Delhi in early 1996, the Commission has held a series of meetings and hearings on the conditions in such homes. These were accompanied by periodic inspections and reports on the juvenile homes in DeIhi by the Investigation Division of the Commission. In the course of the exchanges between the Commission and the senior-most levels of the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, the Lt.Governor of Delhi appointed a Committee to look into the conditions in 80 such homeslinstitutions in the Capital. Consequent upon a study of the report of that Committee, the Commission felt that, if conditions in Delhi itself could be so painful, then circumstances in the rest of the country could scarcely be better. 3.58 The Commission accordingly decided to take up this matter on a nation-wide basis and to serve as a catalyst for reform and improvement. In pursuance of this intent, the Commission despatched detailed questionnaires to all State Governments seeking information, by 1 July 1997,on conditions in five categories of institutions: Observation1 Juvenile/SpeciaI Homes set up under the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986; Probation Homes set up under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958; Short Stay HomeslNari Niketans set up under the Immoral Trafftc (Prevention) Act, 1956; Reception Centresl Beggars Homes set up under the Prevention of BeggarsIBegging Act, 1959; and Borstal Institutions set up under the Borstal Act, 1926. The data once received and analyzed will enable the Commission to determine the best manner in which it should itself act, or stimulate others to act, to remedy the situation in these often medieval institutions. 3.59 In the immediate term, and given the reports of violence in such institutions, the Commission has issued directions to all State Governments asking them to report to the Commission, within twenty four hours of occurrence, any instance of death or rape in such institutions. These instructions will thus parallel those that already exist in respect of similar tragic occurrences that take place in police or jail custody. 3.60 The special situation prevailing in Jammu & Kashmir to which the Commission made reference in its report for 1995-96, required the Commission to be vigilant to