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At least twenty prisoners, including undertrials, of an Orissa jail have been taking computer lessons as part of a computer education program launched by the state home department, Deputy Inspector General of Police B K Mohapatra (prisons) said on Wednesday.
The prisoners are inmates of a special jail at Laxmisagar, five km from Bhubaneswar.
The program is aims at creating opportunities for educated prisoners after they leave the jail, he said.
The Laxmisagar jail has about six hundred inmates and all of them would gradually be enrolled in the programme, he said.
If successful, it will be introduced in other prisons in the state, he added.
Two United Nations volunteers are teaching the prisoners with the United Nations Information Technology unit providing the hardware support, Mohapatra told rediff.com.
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