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A gift for kids on the other side of the fence

Instead of holding the usual festivities or distributing sweets, mandal workers have arranged for a dialogue between the remand homes inmates and people who have given up crime.

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While most Puneites are busy making plans about how to celebrate New Year’s eve, members of city-based Sainath Mitra Mandal are making efforts to usher in an era of hope and new beginning in the lives of the girls and boys living in remand homes, this New Year.

Instead of holding the usual festivities or distributing sweets, mandal workers have arranged for a dialogue between inmates of the remand homes and people who have successfully left their criminal backgrounds behind and have taken to the mainstream of society. The interactions would be held in both girls’ and boys’ remand homes on December 29-30.

While talking to DNA, Piyush Shah, executive president of the mandal, said that the idea of this interaction was conceived by them to prevent the inmates of the remand homes from becoming hardened criminals.

“The inmates of the remand homes are mostly in the age group of 14-18 and their early stint with crime makes them vulnerable to a life of crime,” he said.

“The two people who will be leading the interaction have served 14 years in jail. After their release, they were successfully rehabilitated and are now leading lives as honourable members of society,” he said.

Also, the speakers would talk with the children about the dangers lurking in the world of crime and would strongly advise them to stay away from a life of crime.

“Due to their impressionable age, the inmates become easy targets, for gangs and other criminals, as possible recruits. The speakers would talk about the pitfalls in the path and ask the inmates to be careful,” he said.

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