MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Networks India together with India Vision Foundation celebrated World Music Day with the release  of a heart-warming video of- The Dhun Project.

The Dhun Project  has facilitated the opening of music training  centers  across five large  prisons  in North India. The initiative uses the powerful medium  of music (vocal and instrumental) to assist in rehabilitation of  prison  inmates, thus  preparing them  for  reintegrating into  society  post  their  prison  term. 'The Dhun Project'  has now  touched the  lives of close  to  250  inmates  at five training  centres  in UP and Haryana prisons.

Since the project's initiation in 2018 with the launch of their first music training center  at the Bhondsi Jail in Gurugram,  Haryana, four  more  training centres  have  been  set  up  at Rothak  and  Ambala  prisons  in Haryana, and Dasna and Kasna prisons in Uttar Pradesh.

Furthermore, special trainers (vocal and instrumental) have been appointed who visit the music centres on a regular  basis to train the prison  inmates. The training  centres  are well equipped with instruments such as drum set, pad, tabla, dholak, harmonium, guitar and electric  keyboards. So far, 116 inmates  have been trained in vocal, 105 in instrumental and 23 inmates trained in both vocal and instrumental music.

Apart from being a source of cheer and entertainment, the training equips inmates with a potential source of livelihood.