Chandigarh, November 18

The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation today allotted the work of showcasing a tableau of unique initiatives of the Model Burail Jail at the Republic Day parade on Rajpath to a company for Rs 20 lakh.

MC officials said on November 22, the company would first showcase the project to the Defence Ministry and submit its entry on the theme. A committee, which will select entries submitted by the states and union territories, will decide the fate of the same.

“Model jail tableau is not final. If the committee decides that some other thing should replace it, we will work on that,” a senior MC official said.

Burail Jail is the country’s first jail where inmates prepare food for thousands of children of anganwadis. All jail inmates have their bank accounts. It has already been declared plastic-free with ban on use of plastic items on its premises.

Instead of the traditional LPG cylinders, about 60 per cent energy needed for cooking at jail is fulfilled by biogas plants. The jail has its first exclusive outlet, Srijan, at Sector 22, where all products made by jail inmates are sold. One can get a variety of items from furniture to food products at the outlet. — TNS