MADURAI: In a novel income-generation scheme, the Tamil Nadu prison department has planned to get work orders for inmates from Small Scale Industries (SSIs). The pilot project will be launched in the Madurai central prison where the jail authorities intend to provide employment to at least 80 per cent inmates with a minimum wage of Rs. 100 per day.
“The idea is to provide employment opportunity for prisoners with a decent pay. We are trying to negotiate with SSIs looking at outsourcing some of their activities. In Madurai, the garment industry has shown interest in our project. Manufacturing units can install their machinery on the prison premises and employ the inmates. There are at least 8,000 convicts prisoners lodged in various prisons across the State,” Additional Director General of Police (Prisons) R. Sekar said on Thursday.
Mr. Sekar said if SSIs could provide training to inmates on the nature of outsourced work, the tie-up arrangement would be beneficial to both.
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