Justice Lokur (centre) with VK Saxena (left) at the District Jail, Gurugram.
Supreme Court Justice Madan B Lokur has lauded the efforts of Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC) for imparting training and providing employment to prisoners in the District Jail in Gurugram to spin charkhas and produce yarns.
Justice Lokur, who inaugurated the training cum production centre in District Jail, Gurugram, appreciated KVIC Chairman V K Saxena's work in the visitors' diary of the jail.
"Had a wonderful visit to the jail. The facilities are very good and the efforts put in by the officers, staff and the NGO India Vision Foundation have made the jail more or less an ideal one.
"The efforts put in by Shri Saxena of KVIC in providing charkhas and giving training to inmates is equally commendable and deserve to be encouraged and emulated elsewhere.
Congratulations and all the best," Justice Lokur wrote in the jail diary after this visit on Saturday.
During his visit, yarn made by the inmates of the jail was also shown to Justice Lokur.
In jails, prisoners or undertrials generally earn Rs 25 per day from physical labour work.
Through this initiative of KVIC, the prisoners will start earning Rs 150 per day to Rs 250 per day as per their performance, a KVIC release said, adding that the amount earned by the prisoners will be credited in their jail account.
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