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IGNOU Offers Free Education To Jail Inmates
By ugeshji, Section News
The story of Rajesh Upadhyay is not unique. He is serving a life sentence in the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Central Jail, Jabalpur. What is unique is that he has enrolled himself in a computer literacy programme at jail. For thousands of prisoners like Upadhyay across the country, IGNOU has opened the gates to higher education.
The initiative was launched in Delhi's Tihar Jail in 1994, but as a special gesture, the university has given the project a major impetus by declaring that the education it offers to jail inmates will, henceforth, be free. "All jail inmates in the country will now be able to access free education as per their choice," the university informed in a statement. Students do not even have to pay examination or late fees. "They can enrol themselves any time of the year, appear when they are ready to take their examinations and get certificates which will ensure them vocational advantage as well as access to quality life," the statement said. Source: The Tribune IGNOU offers free education to jail inmates Click On "Full Story" For More...
The results of the new initiative are already visible in Jabalpur, where the university has opened a special study centre inside the Central Jail. As many as 115 prisoners have taken admission to various programmes in the academic session that began in January.
IGNOU's regional centre, Cochin, is also gearing up for a surge in students. Through its network of special study centres under the Council of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI), it had enrolled 57 jail inmates for the computer literacy programme (CLP) in 2008. Thirty-four inmates from central jail, Thiruvananthapuram, and 23 prisoners from sub-jail, Kozhikode, took admission in CLP. Forty-one inmates successfully completed the programme and were given certificates.
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