‘Consider transgenders’ quota in edu institutions, govt jobs’

BY ANI

First India Bureau

Mumbai: Bombay High

Court on Monday asked State government to consider granting reservation to transgenders in state-run educational institutions and government jobs.

A division bench of Acting Chief Justice SV 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 07. 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 re- cruitment to include transgender category.

Kashid’s lawyer, Advocate Kranti LC, informed court that 1% reservation was provided for transgenders in all caste categories in Karnataka, and sought that such reservation policy be adopted in state 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

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