Telangana district prison to set up open-air gym for inmates
Hyderabad: After providing them entertainment through FM radio facility, the Telangana Prisons Department is setting up an open-air gymnasium to promote physical health of inmates at Sangareddy District Jail.
In addition to initiatives launched to reform and rehabilitate the prisoners, the gymnasium, the first of its kind in the state, would also act as one of the useful programmes for physical fitness of those behind bars, a senior Prisons Department official said.
"Several municipalities in Telangana have started open gyms in public parks.
So we thought why can't we start in prisons?. The step is to motivate inmates towards physical exercise", Sangareddy District Jail Superintendent Nawab Shiva Kumar Goud told PTI over phone.
The jail houses 240 inmates --50 convicted and 190 remand prisoners -- and they already participate in yoga and physical training and parade activities.
Goud said the District Jail in Sangareddy is one of the model jails in India, constructed as per the model prison manual.
The open gym would be set up in one of the lawns and start functioning in the next 10 days, he said The inmates can utilise the gym facility in both morning and evening hours.
There is a plan to have at least 10 fitness equipments, 70 per cent of which would be procured through the manufacturing unit in Sangareddy District jail itself, the senior jail official said.
"We are reforming inmates through education, moral and physiological support and vocational training and the gym will help them in maintaining good health and physical fitness," Goud said, adding a jawan would guide the inmates in doing exercises.
Besides they would also arrange a professional trainer for initial training, he said.
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Bypoll results will decide the future of Congress in Karnataka: BJP leader Ashoka
Bengaluru (PTI): Leader of Opposition BJP in the Karnataka Assembly R Ashoka said the results of the bypolls in Davanagere South and Bagalkote assembly constituencies will decide the future of the ruling Congress in the state.
The bypolls were necessitated following the demise of sitting Congress MLAs Shamanur Shivashankarappa and H Y Meti, who represented Davanagere South and Bagalkote constituencies respectively.
The ruling Congress has fielded Shamanur Shivashankarappa’s grandson and Karnataka Minister S S Mallikarjun’s son Samarth Shamanur in Davanagere South and Umesh Meti in Bagalkote, who are locked in a direct contest with BJP candidates T Dasakariyappa and Veerabhadrayya Charantimath.
According to Ashoka, there is a contest between the poor and the rich in the upcoming bypolls, scheduled on April 9.
"The Congress will lose this election, and the future of the state will be decided. Since Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said ‘Make the poor win’, the BJP has fielded poor candidates,” the BJP leader said in a press conference.
In Davanagere, the BJP has given a ticket to an ordinary person, whereas Congress has given tickets to powerful and influential people. In Bagalkote, there is a very good opinion about the BJP candidate, he claimed.
According to him, the Congress has given space to dynastic politics in both places. Therefore, the BJP has a strong chance of winning in both constituencies.
The LoP said if the Congress candidate wins in Davanagere, it is understood that Muslims will not get opportunities in the future, and therefore, Muslims are opposing the Congress party.
He also charged that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who talks about uniting backward classes, has not given a ticket to backward class candidates.
