Section 677: Objectives of Work Programmes and Vocational Training

(1) Vocational training and work programmes shall be treated as essential features of the correctional programmes.

(2) The objective of such programmes should be to,-

(a) Imparting discipline and work culture among inmates;

(b) Developing right attitudes towards work and dignity of labour,

(c) Promoting,-

(i) physical and mental well-being of inmates;

(ii) proper development of mind through intelligent manual labour;

(iii) Spirit of fellowship and a cooperative way of living; and

(iv)a sense of group adjustment;

(d) Developing capacity for sustained hard work;

(e) Building habits of concentration, steadiness, regularity and exactness in work;

(f) Imparting and improving work-skills;

(g) Awakening the self-confidence and self-reliance of inmates;

(h) Training and preparing inmates for achieving lasting social readjustment and rehabilitation;

(i) Imparting an occupational status and thus creating a sense of economic security among inmates;

(j) Keeping inmates usefully employed in meaningful and productive work;

(k) Preventing idleness, indiscipline and disorder amongst them; and

(l) Maintaining a good level of morale amongst them and thus promoting a sense of self as well as institutional discipline among them.