Govt can provide reservation for third gender: HC

One-liner: The Madras High Court on Tuesday granted liberty to the members of the third gender to insist that the govt or the authorities concerned provide reservation for them in employment.

Quota for transgender: The first bench gave the liberty while disposing of a PIL petition from Grace Banu Ganeshan, who prayed for a direction to the Registrar-General of the High Court to conduct a special recruitment drive for transgenders with 1% reservation for them in the vacancies to be filled by him.

No application: In his counter, the Registrar-General submitted that there was no application from any person belonging to the third gender and stated that the Public Interest Litigation had worked itself out.

• Hence, it is disposed of without affecting the petitioner and the rights of the members of the third gender to insist on a reservation in future recruitment processes, the bench said.

Source: PTI