PRISON AUTHORITIES TAKE INITIATIVE TO ENGAGE INMATES TO WORK IN BUSINESS OUTSOURCING

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Prison authorities take initiative to engage inmates to work in business outsourcing.

Prison authorities in India’s southern Hyderabad city have taken the initiative to engage inmates to work in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) units run from the prison premises.

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BANAGLORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA (RECENT) (ANI-ACCESS ALL)

1. GVs OF EXTERIORS OF RADIANT INFOSYSTEMS LTD.

2. A SIGNBOARD READING ‘RADIANT INDOSYSTEMS LTD.

3. A DOOR READING ‘RADIANT INFOSYSTEMS’

4. PEOPLE WORKING ON THE COMPUTERS

5. MORE OF PEOPLE WORKING

6. GVs OF POEPLE

7. CLOSE OF A MAN WORKING

8. GVs OF A COMPUTER

9. A MAN WORKING

10. CLOSE OF KEYBOARD

11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NARAYANA CHARYULLU, DIRECTOR OF RADIANT INFOSYSTEMS LTD, SAYING: “We have made plans to set up rural BPO centre, so I asked the authoritiesM ‘Can we set up a rural BPO centre in the prison?’ and they got excited and asked officials to accompany me. I visited jail and spent five-six hours and there I found and (was) surprised to see a computer lab already set up there, and they are imparting training to many prisoners.”

12. GVs OF PEOPLE WORKING

13. CLOSE OF A GIRL WORLKING

HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA (RECENT) (ANI-ACCESS ALL) (ORIGINALLY 4:3)

14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DR. GOPINATH REDDY, DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR PRISONS, ANDHRA PRADESH, SAYING: “On our study we found that large number of convicts who are willing to work on computers, because we have been training many convicts on computer. So I thought these prisoners can made use of and they can be put on computer-based jobs.”

15. A SIGNBOARD READING ‘CENTRAL PRISON’

16. GVs OF EXTERIOR OF PRISON

17. GATE OF CENTRAL PRISON, HYDERABAD

STORY: Prison authorities in India’s southern Hyderabad city have taken the initiative to engage inmates to work in a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) unit in the prison premises.

For the first time in India, a BPO is going to set up in a prison where prisoners would be recruited for jobs.

A Bangalore-based technical firm called Radiant Info systems Ltd., is setting up the business process outsourcing centre at Cherlapalli Prison in Hyderabad city in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

“We have made plans to set up rural BPO centre, so I asked the authoritiesM ‘Can we set up a rural BPO centre in the prison?’ and they got excited and asked officials to accompany me. I visited jail and spent five-six hours and there I found and (was) surprised to see a computer lab already set up there, and they are imparting training to many prisoners,” said Narayana Charyullu, Director of Radiant Infosystems Ltd

According to the authorities, the eligibility criteria for working in the BPO are education up till 10th standard and above, and the knowledge of computer operations.

“On our study we found that large number of convicts who are willing to work on computers, because we have been training many convicts on computer. So I thought these prisoners can made use of and they can be put on computer-based jobs,” said Gopinath Reddy, Director General For Prisons, Andhra Pradesh

Reddy said the BPO would be a non-voice unit as of now, and would work with data processing and transmission.

Nearly 250 prisoners have already been recruited for the salaried jobs.

According to reports, within three months the project will be fully underway with an initial investment of Rs 3 to 3.5 million.