Nearly 50,000 copies each of religious books Hanuman Chalisa and Sundar Kand will be distributed among prisoners in all the 72 district jails, sub jails and central prisons across Uttar Pradesh before the Pran Pratishtha ceremony of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya on January 22.
State Prisons Minister Dharamveer Prajapati said that live streaming of Pran Pratishtha event will be done at all jails for prisoners.Practice of providing devotional and religious books to prisoners is very old. Fifty thousand copies of Hanuman Chalisa and Sundar Kand have been ordered from Gita Press, Gorakhpur after immense rise in demand for the books among prisoners recently, the Minister said.