Rajesh had asked the Centre whether it has prepared a draft of a national policy on transgenders and asked for details if they had. He also wanted to know about measures taken up by the government to prevent abuse of transgenders and atrocities against them.
Minister of state for social justice and empowerment Vijay Sampla on Tuesday told the Parliament that the Centre will not seek a review of the NALSA judgement.
"The Hon'ble Supreme Court in its judgment dated April 15, 2014, in WP(C) 400/2012(NLSA Vs.UOI) directed, inter-alia, the Centre and state governments to take steps to treat transgenders as socially and educationally backward classes of citizens and extend all kinds of reservation in cases of admission in educational institutions and for public appointments. The Central government is not seeking review of the said judgment," said Sampla, in response to a query posted by Palakkad MP MB Rajesh.
Rajesh had asked the Centre whether it has prepared a draft of a national policy on transgenders and asked for details if they had. He also wanted to know about measures taken up by the government to prevent abuse of transgenders and atrocities against them.
In response, Sampla said that the Centre has drafted The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, in consultation with concerned stakeholders, and submitted it to the Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment for examination.
In its report, tabled on July 21, the Committee, headed by BJP MP Ramesh Bais slammed the Bill, saying that it has not adequately addressed the issues of homophobia against the LGBTIQ community, as the transgender community are still under the "risk of criminalisation under Section 377 of the IPC".
"The Bill does not refer to important civil rights like marriage and divorce, adoption, etc., which are critical to transgender persons' lives and reality, wherein many are engaged in marriage-like relations, without any legal recognition from the state," the report states.
Still unequal
Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment slammed the Bill, saying that it has not adequately addressed the issues of homophobia against the LGBTIQ community as the transgender community are still under the "risk of criminalisation under Section 377 of the IPC".
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