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Ex-women convicts run fuel station
As many as 25 former women convicts got a new lease of life on Friday with the Telangana State Prisons and Correctional Services (TSPCS) opening a new fuel outlet exclusively operated by women.
Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy inaugurates the all-women fuel station at Chanchalguda
​Hyderabad: As many as 25 former women convicts got a new lease of life on Friday with the Telangana State Prisons and Correctional Services (TSPCS) opening a new fuel outlet exclusively operated by women.
Touted as the first of its kind, the fuel outlet located at Chanchalguda, was inaugurated by the Home Minister, Naini Narsimha Reddy.
The employees of the ‘all women fuel station’ were once prisoners at the special prison for women in Hyderabad. Each of them would be paid a salary of Rs 12,000 a month, an unimaginable thing for them in view of their background.
Speaking after inaugurating the fuel station, Narsimha Reddy said the government is proud to run a fuel station operated entirely by women, who were former convicts.
The concept of establishing fuel outlets run by former convicts with good behaviour was part of the government’s welfare measures and the idea of the prisons department to contain crime rate, he said.
More fuel stations and other industrial units will be opened in various places in the days to come after studying feasibility and other related issues, the Minister said.
Speaking on the occasion, Director General of Prisons, V K Singh said the department has achieved a turnover of Rs 300 crore a year from the fuel outlets being run by it. He also said the results are motivating.
