Karnal, July 8 -- The Ambala education department has launched a unique literacy drive, training 17 educated inmates at the Ambala Central Jail to provide basic literacy to 236 non-literate prisoners.

The 236 inmates have been registered on the ULLAS portal, while 17 inmates have been selected as volunteer teachers under the Ullas Nav Bharat Saksharta Programme.

Officials from the education department said that under the campaign, illiterate inmates are surveyed, motivated for a basic course and then appear for the literacy assessment also called Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Test (FLNAT).

District education officer (DEO) Sudhir Kalra said that the inmates are expected to appear for the literacy assessment scheduled in ...