Haryana district jail, Karnal, has set up a Prison Inmate Calling System and Public-Private Partnership Programme in the jail premises.
A spokesman of Police Department said that Director General of Prisons, Yash Pal Singal formally inaugurated both these facilities on Thursday.
He said that in Prison Inmate Calling System, an inmate can make a call on two numbers of his choice, which are already feeded in the system, for duration of ten minutes every week. The numbers given by the inmate have been verified by the Police Department. He said that this facility would save a lot of time and money of family members and friends of inmates thus helping them in managing stress.
He said that the Public Private Partnership Programme is being implemented in association with VK Handloom, Panipat. Foot mats, doormats and other handloom items would be manufactured in this programme. This would provide an excellent opportunity for the inmates to acquire vocational training knowledge and a paid job work, which would help in their rehabilitation when they move out of prison, he said.
The spokesperson said that earlier also, District Jail, Karnal was first to establish facilities like IGNOU and NIOS Study Centres in the jail premises, Prisoner Management Software (PMS), tele-booking of interviews, admission of children of inmates who are lodged with their guardians in the jail, in reputed school and exhibition of articles manufactured by the jail Inmates at various exhibitions and conferences including Surajkund Craft Fare at Surajkund, Faridabad and 33rd Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators, which was held at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi from September 22 to 27, 2013.