indore madhya pradesh state legal services authority mpslsa in an unique initiative began a scientific programme empowering prisoners through skill development for their rehabilitationthe mpslsa in coordination with the recognised institutes is running a threemonthlong vocational training courses to improve skills of over 200 prisoners in jabalpur central jail the initiative was started in presence of chairman mp high court legal services committee jabalpur justice vivek agarwal the authority first carried out psychometric analysis of prisoners to decide their interest and then started to impart training to them the whole psychological analysis along with educational background interest time remaining of release are taken into account before deciding on training to be given to prisonersmpslsa member secretary rajiv karmahe told toi for rehabilitation of prisoners a scientific scheme is prepared for making them employable after their release from jail so the certification through recognised institutes under this programme startedthis programme will be expanded in other jails of madhya pradesh said karmahe the authority has tied up with different institutes like industrial training institute rani durgavati vishwavidyalaya polytechnic college state institute for hotel management and others for the programme in the programme the prisoners are being imparted training of arch welding desktop publishing fashion designing yoga horticulture and agriculture and hotel managementjabalpur central jail senior superintendentakhilesh tomar told toi we are in the last stage of three courses arch welding desktop publishing and fashion designing which started in mayinitially the response was skewed but after the training programme started more people showed interest the prisoners will get certificates after completion of their courses said tomarother courses like horticulture and agriculture and hotel management would start after completion of the ongoing courses centre has given a target to state institute of health management to train 300 prisoners under the scheme