Four eunuchs from each ward can get Municipal Corporation of Delhi pensions

Giving a push to its unique pension scheme for eunuchs, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi today announced reserving quotas for four persons from 'third gender' in each municipal ward.
    
The MCD had in November issued a notification including eunuchs in its social welfare pension scheme, making them eligible for a Rs1,000 pension per month.
    
The pension scheme of the civic agency benefits different sections of the society including the elderly, widows and physically challenged. Like others, eunuchs too will have to get a recommendation from the area councillor for securing the pension but there were complaints that there were no clear-cut guidelines on how to use this discretionary quota for them.    

Leader of MCD House Subhash Arya, while finalising the civic body's 2011-12 budget, said quotas of all councillors will increase by four, which have been allotted after cutting the discretionary quota for Mayor or Deputy Mayor, Standing Committee Chairman and Deputy Chairman and Leader of House.    

These four additional quotas will be used for eunuchs,Arya said.
    
The eunuchs will have to submit a medical certificate from any government hospital as proof of being an eunuch. An affidavit to the effect that the eunuch is not married and the birth certificate or any other document showing the age of the applicant not below 18 years will have to be given.    

Delhi has around three lakh eunuchs.