In A First, Fuel Outlet Run By Women Convicts Opens In Chennai
NDTV
For the first time in India, a petrol retail outlet will be fully managed by convicted women prisoners. About 30 female prisoners will be employed at this petrol retail outlet.
The nation's first retail fuel outlet run by women convicts who are still serving their prison sentences was inaugurated in Chennai on Friday by Tamil Nadu Minister for Law and Prisons S Regupathy.
Named Freedom Filling Station, it is located on Ambattur Road in Chennai at Puzhal, abutting the Special Prison for Women (SPW-Puzhal). It will go a long way in reforming and rehabilitating the convicts, the Tamil Nadu prison department said.
"For the first time in India, a petrol retail outlet will be fully managed by convicted women prisoners. About 30 female prisoners will be employed at this petrol retail outlet. The prisoners will get Rs 6,000 each as monthly salary," an official release said.
