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The West Bengal government has always taken special provisions to ensure the status upgrade of transgenders in the country.
Be it initiatives such as upgrading the status of the highly marginalized transgenders who are lagging behind on human development or the formation of a development board to appointing Manabi Bandopadhyay, a transgender, as the principal of an institution, they always considered the hijras as one of their own.
And now…
The West Bengal government has asked the Kolkata Police to empower the community by recruiting transgenders into the Civic Police Volunteer Force (CPVC).
Shashi Panja, the State Minister for Women and Child Development proposed this idea during a meeting of the West Bengal Transgender Development Board and later spoke to the Kolkata Police Commissioner about it.
This is what she said to The Indian Express:
“The prime issue that we face is that people don’t have respect for the transgender community. But if they are incorporated as volunteers in the civic police force, then it will gradually allow people to imagine them in different roles.”
Much work has been done already, but we have miles to go before our transgender brothers and sisters are given the rights they deserve to live with dignity.
Perhaps, a hijra politician is not a distant dream after all. 🙂
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