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Now prisoners lodged in Indian jails to cook food at Modular kitchens!
Lucknow: Imagine what image will come in your mind when you think of Indian Prisoners home but now whole imagination is going to change as jail department has started modular kitchens where now inmates will cook food in modern kitchens.
Inmates in many jails of Uttar Pradesh are no longer cooking food the traditional way as modular kitchens with latest cooking gadgets have become operational in 25 districts of the state. Bijnor jail was the first to be equipped with a modern kitchen.
“The jail department has started modular kitchens in 25 districts with an expenditure of Rs 4.71 crores in the first phase”, IG Prisons PK Mishra told media persons.
Since the time of British rule, food inside prisons was cooked by inmates the traditional way even in extreme winter or summer affecting the health of prisoners. Due to this, a scheme to modernise jail kitchens was started in the state, he said.
The new kitchens are equipped with gadgets to knead flour and prepare chapattis on a largescale in roti makers besides there will be potato peelers, vegetable cutters and arrangement of chimneys and other equipment used in modern kitchens, he said.
“It takes about four to five hours to cook food for thousands of inmates. Now, with the help of machines the work will be completed in one to two hours. This not only saves time but also leaves a good impact on health of prisoners involved in the cooking,” he said.
Indian prisoners to cook food in modern style with help of Modular kitchens!:
In the first phase, 25 jail kitchens have been mechanised and in the days to come all 72 jails of the state will be covered.
Initially, some problems were faced as prisoners did not have much knowledge about these gadgets and did not know how to operate them. For this, experts have trained them and now they have accustomed to these machines.
The main advantage of this scheme is that food is prepared under more hygienic conditions as it is not touched by hand.
According to officials in the last financial year, the UP government had taken up this initiative of modernising kitchens by equipping them with modern gadgets including electric chimneys, vegetable cutters, roti makers, wheat cleansing machines, etc.
This would immensely reduce the work of inmates. Bijnor jail was the first to achieve this status.
“There are about thousand prisoners lodged in Bijnor jail and around 55 prisoners were deputed to prepare the food every day. After the modernisation the same work is being overseen by 25 inmates,” jail officials said.
The State Scores Extra High on Gaming-Friendly Industry Index
Meghalaya scored 92.85 out of 100 possible points in a Gaming Industry Index and proved to be India’s most gaming-friendly state following its recent profound legislation changes over the field allowing land-based and online gaming, including games of chance, under a licensing regime.
The index by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) uses a scale of 0 to 100 to measure the level of legalisation on gambling and betting achieved by a state based on the scores over a set of seven different games – lottery, horse racing, betting on sports, poker, rummy, casino and fantasy sports
Starting from February last year, Meghalaya became the third state in India’s northeast to legalise gambling and betting after Sikkim and Nagaland. After consultations with the UKIBC, the state proceeded with the adoption of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 and the nullification of the Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970. Subsequently in December, the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021 were notified and came into force.
All for the Tourists
The move to legalise and license various forms of offline and online betting and gambling in Meghalaya is aimed at boosting tourism and creating jobs, and altogether raising taxation revenues for the northeastern state. At the same time, the opportunities to bet and gamble legally will be reserved only for tourists and visitors.
“We came out with a Gaming Act and subsequently framed the Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021. The government will accordingly issue licenses to operate games of skill and chance, both online and offline,” said James P. K. Sangma, Meghalaya State Law and Taxation Minister speaking in the capital city of Shillong. “But the legalized gambling and gaming will only be for tourists and not residents of Meghalaya,” he continued.
To be allowed to play, tourists and people visiting the state for work or business purposes will have to prove their non-resident status by presenting appropriate documents, in a process similar to a bank KYC (Know Your Customer) procedure.
Meghalaya Reaches Out to a Vast Market
With 140 millions of people in India estimated to bet regularly on sports, and a total of 370 million desi bettors around prominent sporting events, as per data from one of the latest reports by Esse N Videri, Meghalaya is set to reach out and take a piece of a vast market.
Estimates on the financial value of India’s sports betting market, combined across all types of offline channels and online sports and cricket predictions and betting platforms, speak about amounts between $130 and $150 billion (roughly between ₹9.7 and ₹11.5 lakh crore).
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi are shown to deliver the highest number of bettors and Meghalaya can count on substantial tourists flow from their betting circles. The sports betting communities of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are also not to be underestimated.
Among the sports, cricket is most popular, registering 68 percent of the total bet count analyzed by Esse N Videri. Football takes second position with 11 percent of the bets, followed by betting on FIFA at 7 percent and on eCricket at 5 percent. The last position in the Top 5 of popular sports for betting in India is taken by tennis with 3 percent of the bet count.
Local Citizens will Still have Their Teer Betting
Meghalaya residents will still be permitted to participate in teer betting over arrow-shooting results. Teer is a traditional method of gambling, somewhat similar to a lottery draw, and held under the rules of the Meghalaya Regulation of the Game of Arrow Shooting and the Sale of Teer Tickets Act, 2018.
Teer includes bettors wagering on the number of arrows that reach the target which is placed about 50 meters away from a team of 20 archers positioned in a semicircle.
The archers shoot volleys of arrows at the target for ten minutes, and players place their bets choosing a number between 0 and 99 trying to guess the last two digits of the number of arrows that successfully pierce the target.
If, for example, the number of hits is 256, anyone who has bet on 56 wins an amount eight times bigger than their wager.
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