Tihar Prisons has conducted its fifth campus placement for its inmates with companies involved in packing services and footwear participating in the selection process today. Fourteen companies selected 19 candidates from 24 convicts whose jail terms are likely to finish in six months.

Talking to AIR, spokesperson of Tihar Prisons Sunil Gupta said, Sanjay Satpal landed a job with a monthly salary of 45 thousand rupees as a business executive in a private company. Others who were hired by the particating companies will work as drivers, sales executives and typists in the companies.

The placement progamme was aimed at providing job opportunities to such inmates whose conduct during their jail term has been good and possessed required qualifications for jobs offered by the companies.

AIR correspondent reports that in four successful campus placements conducted last year and in 2010, 338 Tihar inmates got appointment letters from different industries in different positions with salaries ranging between 84 thousand and six lakh rupees annually. The first recruitment drive was conducted on 25th February 2010.

he Tihar-Prisons-authorities have launched a new scheme called, Sparsh, to provide five hundred rupees per month as financial help to poor and needy prisoners in the jail. Informing this in New Delhi today, the jail spokesperson, Sunil Gupta said under the scheme over two thousand inmates will get this amount and they can use it to meet their requirements from the jail canteen. 

He said the move will boost their morale, relieve them of the stress and also stop them from being repeated offenders. AIR correspondent reports that the idea of Sparsh scheme was conceived following report of low morale among poor inmates who usually do not have any visitors.