The project will begin at Charlapally Central Jail, near the state capital Hyderabad, in the next four months. India is a hub for the outsourcing industry, but this is the first time a unit will be set up inside a jail.
The prison, with 2,100 inmates, is Andhra Pradesh's most modern with state-of-the-art facilities. The proposed outsourcing unit is a public-private partnership between the department of jails and an IT (information technology) company, Radiant Info Systems.
Officials say this is a pilot project and, if it succeeds, it could be extended to other jails in the state. Of the total 13,000 convicts in Andhra Pradesh jails, about 2,000 are considered well-educated and could potentially be good workers for BPOs and even call centres in the future.
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I feel better about the safty of my bank records already. How about you?
Heh heh, educated criminals, peoples personal data, what could possibly go wrong?
In order to prevent the criminals from coming to the institution to rob it, let us now bring the institutution to the robbers instead while those are already locked up.
......Red-Tape logic...?
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