By NNN-PTI,
Mumbai, India : A woman, who spent seven years in jail for murder, has got a job soon after stepping out of the prison walls, courtesy an initiative by the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU).
When Sandhya Jadhav, convicted for killing a man who tried to rape her, stepped out of Nagpur’s central jail on Friday, she had an Arts degree and also a Rs 7,000-per month job, due to the efforts taken by the new Vice-Chancellor of the university, Dr Sudhir Gavhane.
“It is our aim to bring such people into the mainstream and make them self-reliant so that they pick up from where they left before going to jail,” Gavhane told PTI.
Another convict Varsha Itankar, who discontinued her studies after ninth standard, was part of the first batch of women who appeared for degree-level examination conducted by the University.