Mumbai: The products published by the convicted prison of Maharashtra will make an online debut.
From furniture, leather goods, handslooms, and garments to agricultural products and baked dishes, various kinds of products will be available for purchases in mouse clicks, initially for government departments and at other stages to the public.
At present, Prisons Maharashtra sells products only from showrooms in their place.
Activists show that online sellers will provide greater prison markets to sell their products and provide opportunities to punish to get throughout the year.
Eleven Prison Countries, including those in Thane, Kalyan, Jerawada, Kolhapur and Nagpur, produce products made by prisoners.
Usually, clients are government institutions, police and paramilitary forces, hospitals and educational institutions.
For example, government schools can order uniforms, training centers looking for benches, and government offices buy chairs and tables.
“Representatives from this department are approaching prisons with their requirements and orders placed once the staff confirms that the requirements can be fulfilled.
Personal individuals can go to showrooms operating in prisons and choose their senior products,” said a senior official.
With online buyers, more since the outbreak of Pandemi, the prison department realizes the need to move their merchandise to the virtual world too.
“One of the problems faced by state prisons is that the number of orders originating from government institutions is not enough.
This means that detainees do not get the amount of work that should be and as a result of their income from the wage to too drop.
Going online is a good step because it will create a market more broadly for artificial prison products and ensure that detainees get jobs throughout the year.
they can use good money for their own needs or send them to their families, “said Prof.
Vijay Raghavan, Director of Prasiha, a project by the Social Sciences Institute (Tiss) Those who work with detainees, adolescents are contrary to the law, and women at the shelter.
“The availability of online products will create awareness among the public about the work punished and will provide greater visibility to the department’s prison efforts to bring reforms,” ​​Raghavan added.
As a first step, the prison department will establish a store on Permata (e-Marketplace government), a portal to facilitate the procurement of online goods used by government and PSU organizations.
After this take off, the prison department will bind with e-commerce companies so that their products can be ordered from any angle.
“We have started the Instagram handle where the product image made by prisoners was posted.
In Pune prison, for example, Haitei Sarees, which costs more than Rs 10,000, is made.
The benefits will eventually go to detention,” said General Additional Director (Prison ) Atulchandra Kulkarni.
At present, skilled inmates produce Rs 67 per task, semi-skilled RS 61, RS 48 is not skilled and convicted in the open prison colony gets Rs 85 per job.
The revised wage has been requested.