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MADHU AGRAWAL

16 October, 2010

It refers to welcome initiative of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to hire transgenders as agents. Union government should take similar more steps to bring third-gender of eunuchs in national mainstream. Some seats s

IT REFERS to welcome initiative of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to hire transgenders as agents. Union government should take similar steps to bring third-gender of eunuchs in national mainstream.

Some seats should be reserved for eunuchs in legislature and in public-sector jobs. While all other criterion for reservation like caste or religion is man-made, eunuchs are depressed sections of society created by nature.

Total neglect towards this physically-handicapped section of society by successive governments in last sixty years despite sufficient constitutional provisions requiring special treatment to socially disadvantaged sections of the society, has made eunuchs resort to begging and dancing. What is more reprehensible is the fact that even respectable families disown their own eunuch-children! Even private institutions giving employment to eunuchs should be encouraged by providing special subsidy on wages paid to eunuchs.

Union government should arrange a census of eunuchs in the country by listing them in a separate gender apart from confusing them with males or females. National Eunuch Commission should be constituted for the welfare of this section of society. Union government should announce unrestricted admission to any educational institution and free education to eunuchs without needing any reserved quota.

Government should be duty-bound to make eunuchs join mainstream with parents of new-born eunuch child neither allowed nor necessitated to give their children to old eunuchs for begging, dancing or resorting to some anti-social activities.