MADURAI: A new fuel station has been set up by the central prison in Madurai on New Jail Road.
The fuel station was inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Law and Prisons Minister S Raghupathi on Friday.
The new facility named ‘Freedom Filling Station’ (A unit of Tamil Nadu Prisons Department) is set up on a 35-cent site of near the prison.
This is one of the six fuel stations in the second phase of development activities by the prison department.
As many as 36 inmates of the prison will be deployed to handle the fuel station, which will be operational round the clock.
According to the officials, the inmates deployed at the fuel station will be paid Rs 300 per day. (ANI)