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| The tale of South Asia's largesr prison | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI | FEB 4
"Work is worship". This saying, interestingly, has a large number of takers in Delhi's Tihar Jail, which is considered to be the largest prison of South Asia. It is offical: Tihar Jail in west Delhi is not just a place where social outcasts are banished, but also a place where convicts find vocational training and employment. And work allows the inmates to earn money.
It is also official: 13,000-odd inmates of Tihar Jail, trained and employed by various factories within the complex, manufacture a range of products. Churning out a range of products from paper files, clothes, bread to furniture, Tihar's inmates are now moving towards Brand Tihar. The Tihar Jail complex housing thousands of convicts and under-trials is a place for those who are deemed unfit to live outside the confines of the prison walls.
From paper factory, furniture section to weaving department-lawbreakers and criminals working in the Tihar jail have managed to create brand Tihar. BK Gupta, Director-General of Prisons, has just let it be known: "The demand is fantastic, you see in the recently conducted trade fair, our sales were six times more than the last year and now we have introduced one more outlet at Delhi Haat".
Tihar jail inmates make cardboard files and folders bought by Delhi High Court in large quantities. What an irony that the fate of these convicts gets sealed in the same cardboard files that they make with their own hands! And BK Gupta divulged: "Definitely and we are going to get it registered also. We will have this trademark registered within the next one month".
It is officially pointed out that the Tihar Jail products are going to flood the market. From things to eat, to things to wear-Tihar is giving them all.
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