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  • Telangana: 10 Transgenders employed by Amazon at Karimnagar’s job mela

    Telangana: 10 Transgenders employed by Amazon at Karimnagar’s job mela

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    Hyderabad: 10 transgenders bagged Amazon jobs at a job fair organised by the Karimnagar Police in the district on Tuesday.

    Officials stated that they were mostly employed as packing assistants with a monthly salary of Rs 30,000.

    The recipients of the appointment letters were overwhelmed when Telangana Planning Board vice chairman B Vinod Kumar distributed their employment orders.

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    “We also aspire to work and are proud to get a job,” said one of the transgender while they thanked Karimnagar cops for helping them secure employment and lead a decent life.

    The job mela was organised by the police at Padmanayaka Kalyana Mandapam in Karimnagar town with the participation of over 120 companies.

    Over 4000 candidates attended the fare while 1000 were selected with a salary package ranging from Rs 20,000 to Rs 50,000 per month and were handed over the appointment orders.

    Byjus, Wipro, Genpact, HCL, Cluster IT, Air India, Indian Airlines, Indigo, Hetero, Aurobindo, Apollo, HDFC, ICICI among others offered employment at the fair.

    Vinod Kumar appreciated the district police for helping the transgenders secure employment while the district collector called upon the youth to download Varadhi app for securing employment and career guidance and preparing for various competitive examinations.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Delhi HC allows activist’s intervention in plea on employment of transgenders

    Delhi HC allows activist’s intervention in plea on employment of transgenders

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    New Delhi: A transgender rights activist, Grace Banu has filed an “Intervention Application” before the Delhi High Court, seeking permission to support the court in a plea seeking hiring of transgender people in public appointments.

    Representing Banu, Senior Advocate Jayna Kothari submitted that she wanted to assist the court in the present case.

    The bench of Justice Prathiba M. Singh allowed the intervention application, but refused any impleadment in the case.

    The court noted: “In terms of the previous order affidavit were to be filed by the respondents. However, it is stated that the Union of India received the petition only on March 24.”

    Thus, the court directed all the respondents to file their affidavits.

    The court added: “Let the paper book be given to the Union of India, so that they can reply on the affidavit in 6 weeks. List the matter for August 4.”

    The court was hearing a plea filed by one Jane Kaushik, a transgender person living in the national capital.

    Being a qualified individual with degrees in B.A. (General), M.A. (Political Science), B.Ed., and a two-year diploma in Nursery Teacher Training (NTT), which is also known as Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), since 2019, Kaushik had been looking for employment in Delhi government schools, but to no avail.

    The Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) advertised a position, but Kaushik was unable to apply since the online application registration system (OARS) did not contain “transgender” as an option for identification. As a result, she filed the current plea.

    Kaushik in her plea stated that various positions advertised required a “specific gender” of the candidate, either male or female.

    She has sought directions through the current plea in order to develop a policy for the hiring of transgender people for all positions with the Delhi government.

    She also sought relaxations for transgender persons by Clause 9 of the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) guidelines issued by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) and sought effective implementation of the provisions of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.

    The court had sought the Centre’s response to the current plea in January.

    The Ministry of Home Affairs of the Central Government was to be included as a party to the plea, the court had directed.

    The Delhi government’s counsel subsequently informed the court that the DSSSB had already taken the necessary actions to instantly alter the portal.

    After considering the arguments, the court had clarified that Kaushik would be permitted to apply for positions at any time, regardless of the gender indicated in the job posting.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • HC asks Maha govt to consider reservation for transgenders

    HC asks Maha govt to consider reservation for transgenders

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    Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Maharashtra government to consider granting reservation to transgenders in state-run educational institutions and government jobs.

    A division bench of Acting Chief Justice S V Gangapurwala and Justice Sandeep Marne asked a committee set up by the state government for the issue to consider and submit a report by June 7.

    When Advocate General Birendra Saraf sought more time, the court remarked, “If there is a hanging sword then things move faster.”

    Vinayak Kashid, a transgender who is a graduate in Electrical Engineering and post graduate in Technology (Electrical Power System Engineering), had filed a petition seeking modification to the advertisement issued by MahaTransco in May this year for mass recruitment to include transgender category.

    Kashid’s lawyer, Advocate Kranti LC, informed the court that 1 per cent reservation was provided for transgenders in all caste categories in Karnataka, and sought that such reservation policy be adopted in Maharashtra as well.

    The court then sought to know why such a policy was not adopted by the state government.

    Saraf informed the court that transgender persons got reservation under the Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBC) section.

    The bench, however, asked what would happen if a transgender person was from the general category.

    “There may be some transgenders from the scheduled caste, some in general…so why not give reservation across all categories,” the court asked.

    The court asked the AG to convey its suggestion to the newly-formed committee under the social justice department of the state government.

    The state had issued a government resolution (GR) on March 3, 2023 for recruitment of transgenders in employment and education.

    As per the GR, a committee would be set up under the social justice department comprising 14 members, who were majorly secretaries of various state departments and psychologists.

    When the court asked the committee to look into the issue of reservation for transgender persons, Saraf in a lighter vein said the government had “woken up from a slumber” eight years after the Supreme Court ordered for opening doors of education and employment for transgender persons.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )