Bakery planned at Kalapet prison

 

PUDUCHERRY: The Jail Department will shortly establish a bakery unit in the prison complex at Kalapet.

It has tied up with the District Industries Centre and the Small Industries Product Promotion Organisation, Tamil Nadu, to establish the unit at the central prison by the end of this fiscal, Inspector-General of Police (in-charge of prisons) S. Vasudeva Rao told The Hindu.

While the District Industries Centre would provide financial assistance, personnel of the Small Industries Product Promotion Organisation would train a few inmates.

The training would begin in a fortnight.

Forty prisoners would be trained in two batches.

The department also planned to establish a unit manufacturing washing powder. A team of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission recently visited the jail and trained 40 prisoners, Mr. Rao said.