Green Prison

Green Prison is a green initiative launched in Sabarmati Jail in 2012, backed by Home Ministry GOI to utilize and use environment friendly methods and green technologies in regular activities aimed at saving fuel and minimising environmental hazards with help of prisoners in jails.

• The pilot project will showcase how public utilities could use cost efficient technology for the benefit of all.
• The project focuses to implement initiatives like steam cooking systems, using solar dishes for steam generation, reducing carbon emissions by solar powered cooking systems etc.
• The project cost is estimated around Rs. 50 to 60 lakh and the savings with this system for the authorities is around Rs. 20 lakh per annum, with reduction of LPG prices.
• Under the project, the solar technology company Flareum has installed 24 concentrated solar dishes which generate steam at high temperature to cook food for 3000 prisoners daily.

The new system will save fuel costs of around Rs. 20 million per annum and reduce 72,000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually over the anticipated 25-year life of the system. In the central jails it is the prisoners with life imprisonment that cook for all the inmates, and by using this system the jail authorities are able to give a cleaner and a healthier environment to the staff and the inmates.