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UP: Yogi Adityanath Government To Constitute Transgender Welfare Board To Uplift The Community
Swarajya Staff
Sep 15, 2020, 10:33 AM | Updated 10:33 AM IST
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Chief Minister (CM) Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh (UP) Government has decided to set up a transgender welfare board under the State's social welfare department, reports Hindustan Times.
The board would include representatives from the transgender community, state government, and also members from the social organisations working for the betterment of the transgenders. The board would function to ensure the welfare and to uplift the transgender community.
The board would identify transgenders across the State, enlist them, issue them identity cards, get them enrolled in educational institutions, and also provide them accommodation under various hostel and housing schemes of the state government.
The development comes merely weeks after the state government had granted the transgender people the right to inherit ancestral agricultural land. Also, the constitution of the board was a demand of the UP Kinnar Parishad which now stands fulfilled. The Union Government's expert committee had also directed the UP government to constitute a welfare board for transgenders.
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