HYDERABAD: The online booking of date for visiting prisoners can now be done on the website of National Prisons Information Portal.
Chanchalguda Central Prison became the first in South India to launch the ‘e-mulaqat’. Home minister for Telangana, Nayani Narasimha Reddy launched the e-mulaqat for Chanchalguda prison on Saturday. The e-mulaqat platform has been developed with the help of National Informatics Centre.
Speaking to the media, Reddy said that with the e-mulaqat system, visitors of prisoners need not wait in long queues at the prison to get a fixed date of appointment to meet the inmates, which sometimes would even take days. He said that there were allegations of discrepancies against the staff in maintaining the visitors’ registers which will not arise now as the entire system is computerised.
The online booking of date by visitors can be done on the website of National Prisons Information Portal.
Reddy praised, Telangana director-general of prisons and correctional services, VK Singh for implementing the e-mulaqat facility.
He also said there are measures in place in the prison that whenever an illiterate prisoner gets lodged in the jail, by the time he would leave, he will be literate enough to read and sign his name. Responding to allegations of corruption in prisons department, Singh said that whoever points this out and proves corruption in the prisons department, will be awarded `5,000.
Regarding the recent Kansas shooting incident in which an engineer from the city was killed, Reddy said that the state government is in touch with Minister for External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj and will extend all possible support.