Jail tourism to begin in Maharashtra from January 26

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It will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray from Yerwada Jail in Pune on 26 January.

Mumbai. Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said that jail tours should be started by allowing common citizens to visit the jails that were witness to the freedom struggle in Maharashtra. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray from Yerwada Jail in Pune on 26 January.

Jail Tourism

The Home Minister told reporters in Nagpur that the jails of Maharashtra have played an important place in the freedom struggle. The leaders involved in the freedom struggle were kept prisoner in various jails of Thane, Nashik, Yerwada, Ratnagiri, Dhule, etc.

by the British government. Mahatma Gandhi, Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak, Motilal Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Sarojini Naidu, Subhash Chandra Bose had kept the country here for several months and tortured in the Yerwada jail in 1838.

Similarly, Ajmal Kasab, who carried out the terrorist attack on Mumbai on 26 January 2008, was hanged in the same jail. The younger generation of the country wants to visit these jails, they want to see. For this reason, the state government has decided to start jail tourism.

For this, interested people will be required to get permission from the jail administration. Those who will be allowed for jail tours will be prohibited from doing photography and videography inside the jail. Full security arrangements will be made during the jail tours.

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