Hyderabad: A record 60,288 students, including 32,373 women and seven transgender learners, will be conferred degrees and diplomas at the 26th Convocation of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU) on September 30.

Among them, 203 prisoners, including 168 undergraduate and 35 postgraduate students will also receive their degrees after completing their studies while serving sentences in prisons across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Remarkably, two prisoners have won gold medals/book prizes for their academic excellence.

BRAOU established study centres in prisons

BRAOU has established study centers in Cherlapalli Central Prison (Telangana) and Rajahmundry, Kadapa, and Nellore central prisons (Andhra Pradesh), providing inmates an opportunity for reformation through education.

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