It is time that 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.
IT REFERS to welcome initiative of Delhi Municipal Corporation to give monthly pension of rupees one thousand to eunuchs. But it will in no way remove the evil of eunuchs through begging and dancing. While all other criterion for reservation like caste or religion is man-made, eunuchs belong to the downtroden section of society that has been neglected by government as well civil society.
It is indeed a pity that even the respectable families disown their own children. Private institutions giving employment to eunuchs should be encouraged by providing special subsidy on wages paid to eunuchs by private establishments. Some seats should be reserved for eunuchs in legislature and in public-sector jobs.
It is time that 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. Union government should announce unrestricted admission to any educational institution for free education to eunuchs without needing any reserved quota. Government should be duty-bound to make eunuchs join mainstream with parents of new-born children neither allowed nor necessitated to reject their child to be handed over to isolated society of old eunuchs for begging, dancing or resorting to some anti-social activities.