NEW DELHI: As many as 1,32,729 (27.37%) of the 4,78,600 prison inmates within the nation are “illiterate” whereas 5,677 maintain a technical diploma or diploma, in keeping with Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) data.
The jail statistics offered by Minister of State for House Affairs G Kishan Reddy lately in Parliament have been based mostly on a compilation of knowledge by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) up to date until December 31, 2019.
The information on schooling of jail inmates confirmed that the utmost variety of 1,98,872 (or 41.55%) prisoners are educated beneath class 10 stage.
It confirmed that 1,32,729 (27.37%) jail inmates have been illiterate, whereas 1,03,036 (or 21.52%) studied past class 10 however beneath graduate stage. In accordance with the info, 30,201 (6.31%) jail inmates have been graduates, whereas 8,085 (1.68%) have been submit graduates and as many as 5,677 (1.18%) held a technical diploma or diploma, and so forth.
Uttar Pradesh, the nation’s most populous state, homes the utmost variety of prisoners at 1,01,297.
Uttar Pradesh additionally homes the utmost variety of jail inmates who’re illiterate (31,927), educated up until class 10 (36,390), past class 10 however beneath commencement (21,269), graduates (8,151), submit graduates (2,635) and techies (925), it confirmed.
West Bengal had not furnished jail statistics for 2018 and 2019 due to which its figures from 2017 have been used within the information, whereas Maharashtra‘s category-wise break up was ‘not obtainable’, the info talked about.
The jail statistics offered by Minister of State for House Affairs G Kishan Reddy lately in Parliament have been based mostly on a compilation of knowledge by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) up to date until December 31, 2019.
The information on schooling of jail inmates confirmed that the utmost variety of 1,98,872 (or 41.55%) prisoners are educated beneath class 10 stage.
It confirmed that 1,32,729 (27.37%) jail inmates have been illiterate, whereas 1,03,036 (or 21.52%) studied past class 10 however beneath graduate stage. In accordance with the info, 30,201 (6.31%) jail inmates have been graduates, whereas 8,085 (1.68%) have been submit graduates and as many as 5,677 (1.18%) held a technical diploma or diploma, and so forth.
Uttar Pradesh, the nation’s most populous state, homes the utmost variety of prisoners at 1,01,297.
Uttar Pradesh additionally homes the utmost variety of jail inmates who’re illiterate (31,927), educated up until class 10 (36,390), past class 10 however beneath commencement (21,269), graduates (8,151), submit graduates (2,635) and techies (925), it confirmed.
West Bengal had not furnished jail statistics for 2018 and 2019 due to which its figures from 2017 have been used within the information, whereas Maharashtra‘s category-wise break up was ‘not obtainable’, the info talked about.