The Jail Department would launch ‘Apni Rasoi’ restaurant in the old jail premises from Monday. Jail Minister Kusum Mehadele would inaugurate it at 1 pm.
This is the first initiative of the Jail Department to rehabilitate the jail inmates who have completed their jail term. In this restaurant, three old jail inmates have been recruited for working in the kitchen.
With the help of a voluntary organisation, the Jail Department has taken this initiative and the prisoners and their family members would also be recruited in the kitchen.
Deputy Superintendent of the Central Jail, Bhopal laxman Singh Bhadoriya told The Pioneer that the Jail department due to excessive workload, till date could not come out with rehabilitation process of the jail inmates after their release.
Now, with the initiative of Jail DG VK Singh, the department is starting this restaurant.
Bhadoriya further informed that the Jail department in coordination with other Departments of the State Government is also considering to have followed up of the prisoners after their release from the jails. The department is also concerned about the future of the inmates after their release.
When the prisoners are in jail, the Department provides them training in different works like painting, carving, doll making, carpentry and other trades.
The follow up scheme would be launched only to know whether the prisoners are earning their livelihood being in the mainstream professions, the Deputy Superintendent of Central Jail added.