Tihar jail's newly inaugrated semi-open prison complex for women inmates has beauty parlor, fashion lab

The Tihar Jail has inaugurated a semi-open prison complex for its women inmates along with a beauty parlour and fashion lab on Thursday, officials said.

Justice Mukta Gupta and Justice Pratibha M Singh inaugurated the new projects, a statement from the jail authority said.

The semi-open jail, exclusively meant for female prisoners, is situated at the residential complex in Tihar while the modern beauty parlour and the fashion lab are situated in jail number 6, the statement stated.

During their visit, the judges held interaction sessions with male and female inmates in central jail number 2, 4 and 6 wherein various prisoners submitted their issues related to legal and long pending trials, the statement added. 

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Moreover, around 1,000 inmates of prisons in Delhi are going to be trained as yoga teachers within a year under an initiative aimed at helping them start a new life after being released, officials said.

The project, ''Sanjeevan'', was inaugurated on January 23 after a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in this regard between the Prison Department and the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY) in December 2018, they said.

Under the project, instructors from the institute will train inmates in 16 jails in the city, including Tihar, with an aim to provide them life skills so that they can work as yoga teachers and make a living, Director General (Prisons) Ajay Kashyap said.

Tihar alone has over 16,000 inmates across its various jails.

"It is our job as well as our moral duty to provide some skill to the inmates so that when they can start a new life after being released. And for that particular reason, we have started this project. We do not want any inmate to come back again after they released," Ajay Kashyap added.

There are basically two courses. One is a foundation course, which is of four weeks, and the other is an instructors'' course, which is of four months. A total of 750 inmates have been trained under the foundation course and they will get certificates on International Yoga Day on June 21, a senior jail official said.