Chandigarh,
February 27, 2021
After Panipat and Faridabad, Haryana’s Ambala prison has got ‘Jail-Radio’.
The third ‘Jail Radio’ was inaugurated by the Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Rajeev Arora in the Central Jail, Ambala.
Earlier, jail-radios were started in Panipat and Faridabad.
Sharing the main purpose of starting such radio, Arora, said in his address that the main objective of starting Jail-Radio is to promote art, creativity and harmony among the inmates.
He said, “Though a Jail has a restricted environment but with the introduction of radio, its inmates will be interacting with the outside world.”
He said that there were a total of 19 jails in Haryana and the state government plans to start Jail-radio in almost all the jails in order to initiate the process of Jail reforms for inmates.
He also shared that the authorities concerned have been in dialogue with the founders and office-bearers of various NGOs regarding introducing more Jail reforms.
On this occasion, DGP (Jails) K Selvaraj said that the first phase of installation of Jail-Radio in Jails has been completed with the introduction of radio in Ambala Jail and now Jail-Radio will be started in four other jails of the state under the second phase.