Tihar’s bakery items for Golden Temple langar

GS Paul
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, September 25

Golden Temple’s kitchen today received a unique offering to be served in its langar. The prisoners of Tihar Jail donated wide range of bakery items like biscuits, “namkeen” and “petha”.

The items neatly packed under the branding “TJ’s” were offered on their behalf by Punjabi Promotion Council’s Jaswant Singh Bobby and his associates.

In a unique initiative, the Tihar Jail factory provides an opportunity of reformation and rehabilitation to the inmates by channelising their energy towards a positive direction.

SGPC’s information officer Amritpal Singh said the products had been sent to langar stock and offered to devotees.

TJ’s brand offers best quality products at competitive prices to the public, government and private institutions.

The inmates are trained to prepare handloom and textile items, apparel, furniture, pure mustard oil, recycled handmade paper products, jute bags, paintings, designer candles, lamps, etc.

“TJ’s is a non-commercial and non-profit objective and income obtained from selling the products made by prisoners is also forwarded to their families back home,” Bobby said.

“There are cases where the family’s source of income diminished with the head of member lodged in jail. So in a way this initiative also serves as a helping hand to them. The prisoners have prepared special biscuits with jelly on it. They wanted to offer the first stock to the Golden Temple’s kitchen so we brought it here along with other items. They prayed to get reunited with their families,” he said.