Equipping them with skills for a new life
The Hindu
Garland-making, sapling preparation skills being imparted to prison inmates
A private bus driver by profession, this Mangaluru District Prison inmate knew nothing about preparing artificial garlands using different cloth pieces and other fancy items.
The driver and his 11 fellow inmates, including a tailor and a farmer, underwent a day-long training under the Sri Kshetra Dharmastala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP) a fortnight ago. By Tuesday, these 12 inmates have prepared nearly 110 big and small artificial garlands using the material provided by SKDRDP.
Garland-making skill is among those new that are being imparted to prison inmates as part of the skill development progamme initiated by Director-General of Prisons and Correctional Services Alok Mohan in prisons across the State.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.