A Special Study Centre of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for educating the inmates of Yerawda Central Prison, Pune has been inaugurated today, the 12th January, 2019. The inmate - learners would be enrolled free - of - cost for the following academic programmes of the University.
Bachelors Preparatory Programme (BPP), Bachelors of Arts (BA), Bachelors of Commerce (BCOM), Masters in English (MEG), Masters in Hindi (MHD), Masters in Sociology (MSO), Masters in Political Science (MPS), Masters in Commerce (MCOM), Masters in Gandhian Peace Studies (MGPS), Masters in Economics (MEC), Masters in History (MAH), Certificate in Food and Nutrition (CFN), Certificate in Human Rights (CHR), and Certificate in Rural Development (CRD). More academic programmes would be offered as per requirements if the inmates learners.
Academic session for the inmate – learners would start from February 2019. The prison authorities informed that about 100 inmates are likely to get enrolled for the January 2019 session. Academic support would be provided to the inmate learners at the prison premises itself with the help of senior teachers from various colleges of Pune. Term End Examination would also be conducted at the prison itself.
Indira Gandhi National Open University has been establishing Special Study Centres at Central Prisons of the country, in order to extend access to higher education to the inmates. The inmates are being provided education free of cost, enabling them to get educated, and lead a normal life after completion of their term in the prison, and become good citizens of the country.
The first Special Study Centre for the inmates was established at Bangalore Central Prison in 1992. Thereafter may centres were established. There are about 150 Special Study Centres for the inmates in the country. In Maharashtra, Special Study Centres have been established at Central Prisons at Nagpur, Mumbai, Amravati, Kolhapur, Nashik, Aurangabad and now at Yerawda, Pune
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