The prisoners who have been awarded rigorous imprisonment, would be eligible to go on parole after five years and the term of undertrial period would now be included in it, announced Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal while interacting with the prisoners during the inspection of Bhondsi Jail on Tuesday.
The Chief Minister inspected the barracks of male and female prisoners, legal care and support center, training and cultural center and also had interaction with the inmates.
Earlier, Additional Director General of Police, Jails, KK Mishra apprised the Chief Minister that the task of computerisation of jails, which began as a pilot project in Bhondsi jail, has been completed in all the jails of the State.
He said that the software was made and implemented by the prisoners. According to Mishra, the first phase of computerisation has been completed in all the prisons, in which fingerprints of about 80,000 prisoners have been stored in the bio-metric system.
He said that this would help in keeping and managing record of all the prisoners including their profiles, type of case, their next date of hearing in court, their medical treatment, photo, persons meeting the prisoners and their contact number.
The Chief Minister desired that this system should be linked with Aadhaar. Once operational, the entire information of jail inmates will be available at a click of the mouse on computer.