KARVACHAUTH: To be celebrated in Punjab jails

Chandigarh, November 1, 2012: The festival of married women (Suhagins) the Karvachauth has been celebrated with great enthusiasm in different part of the country. The Women keep fast on this day for the well being and long life of their husbands and take food late in the evening after offering `arghaya’ to the moon. 

Keeping the sanctity alive and to rehabilitate criminals lodged in jails across the state, the government is determined and is taking various steps, said Sarwan Singh Phillaur, Minister of Jails, Punjab

Phillaur said special initiatives were being taken to make jail inmates good citizens during their stay behind bars. For the purpose, he said, special camps and activities will be organised in jails. As a part of the initiative, the inmates will be free to meet their husbands inside the jails on Karva Chauth from 8 pm to 9:30 pm “We intend to help women who are behind the bars. Our aim is to change the notion that jail inmates can only be punished,” said the Jails Minister.

Special arrangements will be made in the evening for the "Katha" and the evening tea along with food arrangements in the night hours after the fast is completed.

The initiative will be one step forward towards making them civilised and realise that wrong doings don't lead to nothing good in life and one has to move towards the right path in life which gives fruitful results for them and their family, concluded Minister Phillaur.