‘MHA provided Rs 100 cr to states, UTs to strengthen E-prisons portal’

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has strengthened the ‘E-prisons’ portal by providing financial assistance to the states and the Union Territories (UTs) to the tune of Rs 100 crores recently, Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra informed the Rajya Sabha.The objective of E-prisons is to create end-to-end IT solutions for the automation of prison operations, including digitisation and availability of prisoner records in an electronic platform accessible to designated authorities as well as to prison inmates, enabling them to have direct access to information related to them like date of release, parole, visitor’s booking, remission and redressal of grievances, the Minister said in a written reply to a query.The MoS further said that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has also been assisting the states and the UTs for modernizing the security infrastructure in prisons as well as in strengthening the IT infrastructure in jails, which is intended to aid in efficient prison administration.