Former convicts get rehabilitation shot through recruitment drive
As many as 235 ex-prisoners have been offered jobs at a Telangana prisons’ department recruitment drive. Over a dozen companies like Flipkart, Swiggy, Karvy and HDFC participated in the drive at the State Institute of Correctional Administration office in Hyderabad on Saturday.
The ex-prisoners were hired as computer operators, marketing executives, delivery boys, security guards, carpenters, electricians, accountants, medical attendants, detective agents and construction workers.
“We have identified over 1,000 jobs of various kinds, offering salaries ranging from ₹8,000 to ₹18,000 per month,” inspector general (prisons) Akula Narasimha said.
Narasimha said the ex-prisoners were given training in various crafts while serving their terms in jails. He added they were also offered counselling for reforming themselves to lead normal lives.
Papineni Sudheer Kumar, 48, who was recently
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released after serving a life term in a murder case, is among those who have landed jobs. He said he wanted a driver’s job preferably in Khammam, where his wife, Nagamani, works at a petrol pump.
K Koteshwar Rao, also from Khammam, had applied for a record assistant job at a hospital or a medical agency. He had a similar job before he was jailed along with his father, mother and brother in a murder case in 2011. “We were released in 2016 after a five-year imprisonment. I want to lead a normal life,” he said.
K Ashwini, 27, who graduated while in prison, said: “I am looking for a job as an office assistant, as I have enough experience of handling office matters while working with a self-help group,” she said.
Lanka Ramana, HR head of G4S Security Solutions, a popular security agency, said the company wanted to recruit 50-60 security guards. “We are selecting people with sufficient height, well-built bodies and sharpness in the age group of 18-40 years. The minimum salary is ₹10,000 per month and depending on their experience, it would go up to even ₹60,000 per month,” he said.
Ramana said the final recruitments would be done only after thorough police verification.