The Tihar Jail has registered a record turnover of Rs32.17 crore in 2012-13 against a turnover of Rs12.20 crore during the previous year. The prisons's carpentry section, where inmates are employed during their imprisonment, generated Rs23.14 crore and the bakery section did business worth Rs4.97 crore in the last fiscal year, an official statement revealed on Saturday.
The jail houses around 12,000 inmates. The carpentry section recorded an increase in the turnover by scaling up its supply of desks to city Government schools. During the last financial year, the supply of the desks to Government schools was increased from around 225 to 400 per day, the statement said.