As many as 235 ex-prisoners were offered jobs at a Telangana prisons’ department recruitment drive.Flipkart, Swiggy, Karvy and HDFC were among the companies who participated in the drive organised at the State Institute of Correctional Administration office in Hyderabad 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 offering salaries ranging from Rs 8,000 to Rs 18,000 per month. Depending on the skills and eligibility, many will get jobs...,” inspector general (prisons) Akula Narasimha said.
Narasimha said the ex-prisoners were trained in various crafts and counselled while serving their jail terms.
Read this report on rehabilitation, in a story by Srinivas Rao Apparasu published in Hindustan Times...
