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Panaji, Mar 23: Several undertrials and criminals housed in Goa’s one of the most populated jail will be preparing evening snacks for the government servants and even ministers in the state as a part of rehabilitation programme for the jail inmates.
 
Inspector General of Prisons, Mihir Vardhan, said that the state government has decided to train the jail inmates from Sada sub jail, a prison for undertrials and convicts for less than 3 years imprisonment, in the work of manufacturing bakery products.
 
Vardhan said that the inmates have already learnt preparing bread and biscuits in the bakery unit set up there.
 
“We have moved a proposal that the products manufactured here can be supplied for state government servants as snacks during the evening time,” Vardhan said, adding that even government offices including secretariat or ministers’ offices can be supplied these products.
 
The bakery training programme is a part of rehabilitation scheme implemented by the jail authorities.
 
The jail has 350 inmates.
 
Sada sub jail is the house for many notorious criminals including Mahanand Naik, a serial killer who put to death 18 women in 15 years and Russian druglord Yaniv Benaim alias Atala, who is being tried for policemen drug peddler nexus.
 
The jail authorities have already installed a bakery unit in the sub jail costing Rs 5 lac.
 
Vardhan said that the products manufactured here would be branded as 'SS products.’ “SS stands for Sada Sub Jail,” he said, adding that the inmates currently produce bread and biscuits which are consumed amongst the inmates.
 
The authorities have already trained 35 inmates.

The authorities are also exploring the possibility of setting up laundry unit at Sada and Aguada jails.