PATNA: Bihar state government has decided to set up a trust would extend economic help to the family members of those who have been imprisoned for a long time. The trust, namely 'Apradh Pidit Kalyan Nyas', would provide monetary help to the family members of jail inmates. "There are several inmates who were the sole earning member of their family. Now, as they are behind the bars, the family members have been suffering a lot; so it is an initiative from the prisons department to reduce their economic crisis," said IG (prisons) Anand Kishore.
He added that prisoners earn some money during their stay at prisons by engaging in economic activities of different kinds. So far, their earnings used to be saved with the prisons department, which was given to them after their release from prisons. "We have Rs 5 crore as the earning of the prisoners and the trust would soon distribute the money to the inmates' families," said Kishore.
The trust would give the families one-third of the money earned by prisoners while the rest would be kept with the prisons department. The trust would comprise of home secretary, IG, prisons and other officials of the home department. The department has identified 5,000 families who need economic help. Soon, money would be distributed among them.
Source :TOI
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