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Campus placement for skilled at Tihar

Tihar Prisons will conduct its fifth campus placement on Friday for its inmates, with companies involved in packing services and footwear set to participate in the selection process.

Fourteen companies, including Agarwal Packers and Movers, Relaxo footwear, Frontline Group, ABC constructions, Adecco Consultant, Ashwords Network and Jyoti Portfolio Limited will select candidates from 24 convicts.

In four successful campus placements conducted last year and in 2010, 334 Tihar inmates got appointment letters from different industries in different positions with salaries ranging between Rs 84,000 and 6,00,000 annually.

'This is for the first time that a campus placement dedicated to select eligible candidates from convicts is being conducted here. These convicts are likely to finish their jail term in another six months time,' said Sunil Gupta, spokesperson of Tihar Prisons.

'All those appearing for the campus recruitment are educated. While some are graduates, others have professional degrees like Masters in Business Management and Masters in Computer Application.'

The first recruitment drive was conducted on 25 February 2010. It was the brain child of a former jail superintendent M K Diwedi.

Meanwhile, keeping in mind the welfare of its inmates, Tihar Prisons authorities have launched a new scheme to provide Rs 500 per month as financial help to poor and needy prisoners lodged there. Under  the scheme titled 'Sparsh', 2,200 inmates will get an amount of Rs 500 with which they can make purchase from the jail canteen for day to day requirements or use it when out on parole or furlough. Sunil Gupta, spokesperson, Tihar Prisons said, 'We are doing this in order to relieve them from the financial and emotional stress they undergo due to their poor economical condition. Most of these 2,200 inmates are so poor that they do not even have a prisoner property account.'

'Every inmate is allowed to have two turns of mulaqat (meeting) with relatives or friends. When they come over, they bring in food items and money for the inmate. This money is stored in the inmates PPA that they use as per their requirements. Sadly the poor inmates have no visitors,' he said.

Gupta said, 'All jail superintendents, welfare officers and assistant superintendent welfare officers have been asked to recognise poor inmates who do not have any earning and when out of the jail have to travel a long distance to reach home.'

Those living beyond five kilometres but within the jurisdiction of Delhi will also be provided with local fares.
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