Haryana Government on Thursday initiated the second phase of setting up of ‘Jail Radios’ in prisons of all districts across the state.
In the second phase, Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, Rajeev Arora inaugurated four ‘Jail Radios’ set up inside the jail premises of four districts including Karnal, Hisar, Gurugram and Rohtak.
Arora said that this attempt of setting up ‘Jail Radio’ is a major step towards bringing a positive reform for transforming jails into a reformatory home which is one of the unique initiatives taken by the State Government.
He said that the ‘Jail Radio’ programmes are completely focused on the activities of the jail and the inmates and would be presented by the inmates only.
So far, radio stations have been set up in the jails of seven districts in the state. In the third phase more stations would be started in five other jails. In the first phase, the programme was launched in Panipat, Ambala and Faridabad Jail. At present, there are about 18,000 prisoners in the jails of Haryana.
