BANGALORE: The Department of Prisons is entering a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Himalaya Herbal Health Care, which will encourage prisoners to cultivate medicinal plants.
Additional Director General of Police, Kuchanna Srinivas, said 115 acres of agriculture land at Avathi village near Devanahalli will be used for this purporse. 50 lifetime prisoners who were involved in agriculture earlier will look after horticulture and grow rice and paddy. Also, on trial basis prisoners will cultivate medicinal plants in two acres of land. Srinivas said that company will provide seeds and saplings and give training in cultivating medicinal plants. The herbs will be sold to the Himalaya. "All these years, we were following traditional methods, with this new method of cultivation inmates will get better knowledge. They can continue once they are out," he said.Srinivas further said the department pays Rs 50 per prisoner, if they work for six hours. "Now we have told the Himalaya company to pay one per cent of their profit and we will pay Rs 50," he said.
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