As Ranveer Brar of ‘Modern Love Mumbai’ trains Uttar Pradesh jail cooks, here’s what you need to know about India’s prison entrepreneurs
- Celebrity chef Ranveer Brar trains prisoners in Uttar Pradesh to cook and pack meals, with the aim of improving nutrition in the jails of India’s largest state
- As they serve their sentences within jails in Uttar Pradesh, Shimla, Kerala, prisoners learn to cook and package meals
Thousands of Indian prisoners are donning chef hats, ready to become apprentices to the country’s chef Ranveer Brar, who recently made his acting debut in Amazon Prime’s ‘Modern Love Mumbai’.
In a first for the country’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, inmates from its jails statewide will learn skills related to the food and beverage industry, from cooking to packaging, with the aim to improve the quality and nutrition of food where they are lodged.
They will be rustling up everything from hot curries to chapattis, chole bhature, idli sambhar, and dosa.
The pioneering scheme will also involve coaching inmates about food packaging, so the prepared items can be sold to the public for profit.
Initiated by the Uttar Pradesh Prisons Department and the Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, the initiative aims to help prisoners become self-reliant and prepare them for future employment, said the Director General of Prisons, Anand Kumar.