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The Tiruchi Special Prison for Women, successful collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Tiruchi Zone, CII Foundation, and Titan Industries, opened the ‘Freedom Tailoring Shop’ connected Friday.
The inaugural is aimed astatine equipping inmates with nonrecreational skills and a sustainable root of income to enactment their families and aboriginal livelihoods.
According to an authoritative CII property release, the project’s inauguration ceremonial was attended by D. Pazhani, DIG of Prisons, and Ajay Jayaraj, chairman, CII Tiruchi Zone and CEO of Jayaraj Group.
After completing a six-month intensive tailoring training, the prisoners were not lone producing high-quality garments but besides participating successful a “Train the Trainer” exemplary to mentor their peers, said the release. A information of the merchantability proceeds from the store is sent to the families of the inmate-tailors.
“These women are not conscionable learning a trade; they are becoming entrepreneurs,” said Mr. Jayaraj. “By the clip they implicit their sentence, they volition person the method and concern skills indispensable to integrate backmost into nine arsenic productive citizens,” helium said.
V. Rukmani Priyadarshini, Superintendent of the Women’s Prison, has projected expanding the curriculum. Future modules would see precocious techniques specified arsenic appliqué enactment to summation merchandise value, alongside broad grooming successful fiscal absorption and concern development.
Mr. Pazhani highlighted the broader imaginativeness of the department, noting that the Police Welfare Department offered circumstantial schemes to supply fiscal assistance to inmates to commencement their ain businesses aft their release.
The task is led by Titan Industries, Bengaluru, arsenic portion of their firm societal work commitment, with strategical enactment from the CII Foundation.
