On July 1, 2025, the following team members of Sri Prasanna Veeranjaneya Yoga Kendra, Mahalakshmipuram, Bengaluru, a prestigious wing of SPV Seva Trust, visited the Bangalore Central Jail, at Parappana Agrahara.
M/s.
- Balesh
- Galli Babu
- Nagesh
- Pankaj
- Veerendra
- Umashankar
The purpose of the visit was three-fold:
1. To distribute 36 spectacles to inmates of Jail. During our earlier visit to Central Jail on 30th May 2025, SPV Seva Trust in association with Lions Club of Bangalore Sanjayanagar conducted a free eye check-up camp for the jail inmates. Out of about 70 for whom the Trust conducted eye check-up, 36 inmates of the jail required spectacles (powered eye-glasses). These spectacles were specifically made with different power-glasses to suit individuals and the cost of these spectacles were met by the Lions Club. In the presence of the Jail Warden, our team symbolically distributed these spectacles to the inmates on 1st July, 2025.
2. To distribute Certificates of Participation in Workshp on Yoga etc. For the benefit of about 500 prisoners of the Central Jail, and as part of rehabilitative and reformative services, SPV Seva Trust conducted four-day Workshop. 35 Yoga Practitioners, teachers and resource persons of Sri Prasanna Veeranjaneya Yoga Kendra helped in conducting the Workshop between 25th and 28th May, 2025 in Central Jail; the workshp and covered the following areas namely, Yoga, Pranayama, Emotional Counselling and a Session on value-based lecture/ demonstration. At the specific requests of a few prisoners/jail authorities, SPV Seva Trust prepared useful Certificate of Participation to be distributed among the inmates. On 1st July, 2025 these certificates were handed over to the Warden who would in turn distribute the same to the prisoners on their respective date of relief from the prison.
3. Jail Visit: Jail authorities permitted the above team members of NGO, SPV Seva Trust to visit the Central Jail as part of undertaking reformation program to inmates. The visiting team followed the prescribed guidelines and protocols during the visit (including providing necessary documentation). The team members (who were accompanied by a senior jail official) observed the infrastructure available in the Central Jail; they also took note of the following facilities given to secure the inmates and to provide them reformative and correctional services:
- Kitchen
- Flour mill
- Hospital, de-addiction centre, and emotional counselling cell
- Sports facilities
- Yoga training
- Smithy
- Tailoring
- Gym and Fitness Centre
- Bakery facility (with a separate outlet ‘Parivarthana Bakery situated next to jail also supplies bakery items to public)
- Handloom
- Prison premises and office maintenance
- Laundry (cloth-washing)
- soap and liquid hand wash making facility
- Printing press and book-binding facility
- Music Classroom,
- FM Radio Station,
Note: Prisoners and undertrials worked and got trained in all the above facilities; they were paid the prescribed salary/wages for the service provided by them.
The Team observed that convicts, under-trials and lady prisoners were kept in separate enclosures, while economic offenders, hard-core criminals and political prisoners were retained in high-security areas. The entire premises of 40 acres with about 5,000 inmates were kept neat and tidy. The Team members got an insight into the tight security and administration of the Prison. The Jail authorities were playing major role in transforming the prisoners to become self-reliant citizens and the jail was preparing the inmates to have fresh life after their release, the team observed. The Team Members thanked the Superintendent and other authorities for providing the jail visit and for the kind courtesies extended to them.
