Up for sale at Kumbh — furniture, shoes & bakery items among 100 products made by UP jail inmates

The situation officials said astatine the Maha Kumbh, they are trying to item their “One Jail, One Product” initiative, with each jailhouse contributing a antithetic merchandise and that it volition boost the morale of the prisoners who made these items.

For instance, the woody furnishings was made astatine the Bareilly and Naini cardinal jails, shoes astatine the Agra territory jail, bakery products astatine the Varanasi territory jail, carpets astatine the Bhadohi and Mirzapur territory jails, and amla (Indian gooseberry) products were prepared astatine the Pratapgarh territory jail.

“We are receiving a affirmative effect from the visitors here,” said Naini Central Jail Senior Superintendent Rang Bahadur Patel, who has been appointed arsenic the nodal serviceman for the lawsuit successful Prayagraj.

“The preparations for selling products made by prisoners astatine the mega lawsuit were successful advancement for the past 4 months. The jailhouse authorities were instructed to taxable a database of products they would beryllium sending for merchantability astatine the event,” helium added.

As portion of their preparations, 24 jails submitted the lists of products they planned to nonstop to the mela shop, helium said, adding that products from antithetic jails were archetypal sent to the Naini jail, from wherever they were further dispatched to Prayagraj.

The store opened connected January 11, with astir 10 jailhouse staffers headed by a lawman jailhouse serviceman managing it.

The jailhouse officials claimed that they person sold products worthy implicit Rs 1 lakh successful the past 5 days and are hopeful of much income arsenic the Maha Kumbh progresses.

“Our main attraction is woody articles due to the fact that radical spot that our products are made of axenic sheesham wood. We acquisition sheesham for making the furniture. Another point grabbing people’s attraction is the footwear from Agra. We person informed the jails producing shoes and woody items to hole much products and nonstop them soon,” said a jailhouse unit subordinate assigned to the shop.

The merchantability of products volition besides assistance the prisoners enactment connected with nine and enactment their reintegration into the mainstream, helium added.

Messages volition beryllium conveyed to the prisoners astir the merchantability show of their products astatine the mela, helium said.

The situation authorities said the high-quality products prepared by inmates are a effect of the accomplishment grooming they person done assorted programmes tally by the authorities and non-governmental organisations successful the jails.