female inmates of the Ludhiana women central jail today tried their hands on garlic ginger making powder technology
during the training programme on food processing conducted by the central institute of post harvest engineering and technology
CHIPHET) on the jail premises.more then 80 women inmates took part in the training programme.
notably,the CHIPHET has initiated one-and-half-year longtraining programme for women jail inmates and a total of 18 trainings
sessions would be conducted during this period.
the training programme has been specially designed keeping in mind the utility for women prisoners and aimed at generating
self-employment ofter they are released from the jail.
Dr ravinder Dhingra senior scientist os CHIPHET, explained the process of making powder from ginger and garlic and their potential for converting them into business.
ginger and garlic could also be dried in ordinary sunlight in two to three days in summers he also said adding that process get accelerates when carried
out in solar dryers, Which has almost negligible running cost.
Senior scientist Dr. Sangeeta took feedback from jail inmates and also distributed them Written material in Punjabi.