Transgenders get quota in P-G courses

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Transgenders get quota in P-G courses
The Times of India
27 July, 2010


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Transgenders-get-quota-in-P-G-courses/articleshow/6221341.cms


BANGALORE: The Bangalore University academic council has approved reserving a seat in each post-graduate department for transgender communities under the supernumerary quota.

Vice-chancellor N Prabhu Dev had introduced the 'Others' category in the gender column in the Centralised Postgraduate Admission Application Form for 2009-10. The council unanimously approved this move on Monday and appreciated his concern. "Transgenders deserve to be treated like others. It's not a caste but a class. The seat reserved will not be transferable," Prabhu Dev said. Cases of transgenders being harassed physically or mentally, will be treated as ragging. "We have zero tolerance towards ragging," he said.