West Godavari administration plans to come up with an action plan to provide training in various job skills to the remand prisoners and also provide them financial assistance to set up small units to help them realise self-sustenance soon after they are released from the prison.

The district rural development agency project director, Mr Y. Ramakrishna, taking part in a programme held at the sub-jail located at Kotadibba on Wednesday said that they were working out an action plan involving several agencies like DRDA, SC and BC Corporations, SETWEL, minorities and youth welfare, disabled welfare and industries.

He said that they intend to train the remand prisoners on various vocations and later provide them loans from the bankers to help them set up small scale units and eke out their livelihood.

He said that they were holding deliberations with the sub-jail staff and also with the remand prisoners to find out the nature of job skills required to provide training to them.

He said that they were taking up the programme based on the directions from the collector, Dr G. Vani Mohan, who was asked by the remand prisoners earlier to provide them training in job skills to help them lead a normal life in the society soon after they are set free.