Tinka Prison Research Cell

27 April, 2021: Tinka Prison Research Cell announce

Tinka Tinka Foundation has launched Tinka Prison Research Cell (TPRC) with the objective to promote prison related research. The cell will carry out action-oriented research in the domain of prison reforms. It will begin with research on the impact of Tinka jail radio during Covid-19.

Haryana prison department has welcomed this step

Shri K. Selvaraj (IPS), Director General of Prisons, Haryana launched TPRC and expressed hope that TPRC would help in bringing improvements at the administrative level and enhance the quality of work for the prisoners’ welfare. He added that jail radio had clearly brought a lot of positive difference in the lives of inmates in these jails and this kind of research would augment it further.

Program was attended by Shri Amit Kumar, Superintendent, Karnal Jail, Shri Devi Dayal, Superintendent, Panipat Jail and Ms. Shailakshi Bhardwaj, DSP, Karnal Jail, other officers and selected jail inmates. Four inmates have been chosen for the research work in the first phase. All the four inmates explained in detail the impact of radio on them. One inmate said that she has been able to completely come out of her depression due to prison radio. Inmate from Panipat added that earlier, on an average, there used to be ten cases of depression in the jail, which has now reduced to nil. The jail radio is the tool which has helped them deal with difficult circumstances during Covid-19.

Tinka Prison Research Cell has been instituted by Tinka Tinka Foundation, a trust for prison reforms led by Vartika Nanda.

Citations:

-Research paper titled, Karnal Jail Radio: Tinka Radio ka bandion per prabhav aur unkee pasand ke gaane: Gyan Garima Sindhu: July-September, 2022: Volume 75, Pages 6- 12 ISSN: 2321-0443 under UGC Care List Journal was published with credits given to them. This research was conducted under TPRC.

-Shirish, S and Pushplata, (2024), Study on the Impact of Tinka Jail Radio on Inmates in District Jail, Karnal. Communication Today, pp 82-89, Vol.28, No.1-2 (January-June, 2024), ISSN: 0975-217X