PRAYAGRAJ:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ appreciated the
Kaushambi district jail inmates stitching covers to protect cows from the harsh cold during the ongoing winter season. Now the traditional method of cooking ‘chapatis’ (roti) by the
inmates for jail staff and fellow inmates has too become popular among jail authorities of other central and district jails of Uttar Pradesh.
Inmates of Kaushambi district jail have designed a traditional Bhatti (furnace) to cook the chapatis in an attempt to maintain its real taste. The inmates also use a special burner, tawa, and pieces of red bricks to protect chapatis from excessive heat and also helps them from burning.
Jail superintendent (Kaushambi district jail)
B S Mukund told TOI that, “ A group of 50 inmates prepare around 16,000 chapatis in lunch and dinner daily for around 800 people including jail staff and inmates”. He added, “Inmates have designed a traditional Bhatti to maintain the taste of rotis \ chapatis and it’s a completely homely method to cook rotis”.
Mukund also claimed, “ We neither buy flours (atta) packets from outside nor we have roti makers.” The inmates lodged at the district jail themselves grind the high yield variety of flour and collectively work in the process of roti making.
Coming to know about the roti preparations by the inmates of Kaushambi district jail, authorities of other district jail approached their Kaushambi counterparts to share the making process.