De-addiction programme launched at Puzhal prison

A comprehensive de-addiction and rehabilitation programme for drug offenders, ‘PAYANAM’ (Positive Awareness Yielding Against Narcotics Addiction Movement), was launched as a pilot project at Central Prison-II in Puzhal on Thursday.

The programme was inaugurated by the Director-General of Police (Prisons and Correctional Services), Sandeep Rai Rathore. Designed to facilitate de-addiction, behavioural change, rehabilitation and social reintegration, PAYANAM, will provide inmates with counselling, psychological support, therapeutic interventions, life-skills training and rehabilitation assistance.