Parliament panel takes stock of women welfare measures at Tihar

The Parliament’s committee on women empowerment on Sunday took stock of welfare programmes for female inmates in Tihar jail. 

‘The parliamentary committee inspected jail number 6, which is the prison for women consisting of 675 prisoners. The committee interacted with the women prisoners and officials of Tihar Jail,’ a statement issued by Delhi government said.

The committee headed by its chairperson Vijoya Chakravarty consisted 12 members of Parliament and senior officers of Parliament.

The committee was informed by the jail authorities that the women prisoners were being empowered through skill development and various vocational activities.

Women are involved in various vocational activities such as making artificial flowers, snacks, biscuits, stitching, creches training, and various other things. 

Many of the inmates are also pursuing their education from jail, the statement said, noting they even pursued studies through correspondence courses by getting enrolled in Indira Gandhi National Open 

University and National Institute of Open Schooling.

‘More educated prisoners teach the other less educated prisoners. The number of students doing various courses from IGNOU this year upto end of October 2014 was 51,’ it said.

Director General Central Jail, Tihar and DIG Prison were also present to apprise the committee, it added.