The Jammu and Kashmir government launched the e-Prison project to enumerate jail inmates in the State, where numbers of detainees keep swelling during unrest.
The government has already digitised records of 500 inmates.
The project will digitise 25 district jails, two Central jails and one sub-jail in the State.
The second phase of the project will focus on videoconferencing between jails and prison headquarters, e-court, tele-medication in jails.
The information about jail inmates is currently being maintained manually.
To avoid delays in processing the information and manage all the jails efficiently, the automation of prison department has been started.