Sudhar Ghar

     No body in this world born as criminal but circumstances plays vital role in anybodies life to commit crime, and when he/she arrested by the authority then time spend by them behind the bars instead of feeling guilty on to his/her action they comes in the contact of dreaded criminals and often they drag them in the world of crime, if criminals behind the bars get atmosphere to repent or polish there hidden talents then for them time spend in the prison will prove change in there ideology and prison can become for them Sudhar Ghar. In West Bengal state government has changed the name of prisons to Sudhar Ghar, and not only state government took initiatives but Additional Director General and Inspector General also put his inputs to make these places a real Sudhar Ghar by polishing the hidden talents of the prisoners like painting, sculpture and acting, not only he support prisoners to polish there talents but also arrange the facilities and specialists to them, as he think there hidden talents should present to the mass, which will gives feeling of proud to the concern and time spent by them behind the bars proves a learning experience and then Sudhar Ghar will become a real Sudhar, plus it will help them to shun the activities of crime which they did under circumstances.
      In the year 1992 West Bengal government make Sudhar Services’ Law and it was implemented in the state in the year 2000, on 16th April, names of state prisons changed to Sudhar Ghar and now they literally becomes a place as per there name, it is simply because of Mr. B D Sharma who is Additional Director General and Inspector General Sudhar Services’ of West Bengal. As per words of B D Sharma he visits Alipur Central jail and Presidency Jail after taking charge of his post. His eye catches the hidden talents and interest among the prisoners in the different arts like painting, sculpture and drama, which after support and polish can make prisoners respectable character in the society. He make his mind to make name of Sudhar Ghar in reality a Sudhar Centers by presenting the talents of the prisoners in front of public, and his thought get support of Pradeep Bhattacharya, well known West Bengal dramatists, who performed drama in the jail with mix of his artists and prisoners, talent of prisoners surprise both Pradeep Bhattacharya and B D Sharma, considering the talent of prisoners B D Sharma asked to Pradeep Bhattacharya to train them, and Pradeep Bhattacharya after time spent with prisoners for four months, performed drama in the stage based on to the story of Rabendra Nath Tagore, it gets applauds from everybody that watches it, till date prison artists have performed twenty six times drama and appreciated by everybody, not only artists get support of jail authorities but also other talents equally supported by them like painting and sculpture, well known sculpture artist of West Bengal Chitdev give his services to the prisoners for polishing there talents and paintings made by them sent for exhibitions.
Not only prisoners’ talent gets polish in the Sudhar Ghar but also other appreciated schemes are simultaneously running by the authorities, like –

• For the welfare of families of prisoners 1.5 million rupees fund has been made by the authorities.
• In the Sudhar Ghar score of training programmes are running to train prisoners which will later on help them to do any work, once they got out from jail.
• Nutan Jeewan plan started in the year 2009, which was canteen in the jail premises runs by prisoners for prisoners.
• In the field of sports, prisoners pat by authorities with basic infrastructure to do practice, even they are allowed to participate in the sports events, and first time team took participate in Kabaadi tournament.

If other state follows West Bengal and support prisoners to improve there skills and talents they have, then after punishment time ends then they can prove good citizens, but if they live in the criminal environment then accepting them to come out from jail with improvement, it is ridiculous, instead time spent by them in the company of criminals can make there mind filled with negative energy and certainly it can never prove good for society.