The gender disparity has been on the public radar ever since. With women facing the right up discrimination, what we also see in the queue (often overlooked) is the transgender community.
The gender disparity has been on the public radar ever since. With women facing the right up discrimination, what we also see in the queue (often overlooked) is the transgender community. While we definitely have different measures taken by the government in the wake and sake of transgender education, what we fail to talk about is the initiation regarding the implementation of it.
It was just two years back, June 2022, when the government announced the measures that they have taken to uplift the transgender community. Back in 2014, the community got its identity as the ‘third gender’, often referred to as the NALSA judgment. And to not deny this, the government took certain measures that would promote “to live with dignity” amongst the community and making an urge to make the society a ‘trans-inclusive society.’
But the question remains! Did it work through? With these passing years, we somewhere still see that the community getting a side eye when it comes to ‘existence’ or even when they try to get their hands on basic rights; well, “education.”
We all know about “Samagra Shiksha Abhivan” that says, “The Samagra Shiksha scheme is an integrated scheme for school education covering the entire gamut from pre-school to class XII. The scheme was upgraded on August 04, 2021, to align it with the Sustainable Development Goal for Education and the new National Education Policy launched in 2020. Among many other major objectives of the redesigned scheme, it effectively works towards bridging social and gender gaps in school education along with ensuring equity and inclusion at all levels of school education.”
But it is nowhere to be get the ideal “green flag” that it needs.
Why?
A recent report of Times Of India, says, that the transgender community in Jamshedpur lack “basic education.” It came after Tata Steel took the initiative to recruit from the community for certain positions. However, the local members of the community have cited that they lack on the basics. The openings that Tata Steel includes need to have its candidates ITI, graduation in certain subject parameter, and followed by certain recognitions from AICTE/UGC.
While Saira Kinnar, a member from the community lauded Tata Steel and corporates similar for their groundbreaking initiatives, she however complains that how they can’t apply for these jobs as they lack all the qualifications mentioned.
So, what we see here, is that the problem is yet very rooted. And to actually be able to empower them, we need to start from a scratch, not just announce ‘measures’ and see how we can figure out an alternative to make lives like Saira Kinnar better.
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