ID cards for third gender in Bhopal, a first in India

ID cards for third gender in Bhopal, a first in India

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bhopal:13.01.2021

In a novel initiative, the Bhopal administration has started giving identity cards to persons from the third gender, so that they could also take benefits of the government’s welfare schemes.

After they get ID cards, persons from the third gender will be eligible for schemes run by the social justice department.

Joint director, social justice department, R P Singh, said that Bhopal is, perhaps, the first district in the country to be giving ID cards to persons from the third gender. It would not only give a distinct recognition to them, but also enable them take benefits of the government schemes and schemes especially meant for them could also be made at the government-level, he added.

All members of the transgender community living in Bhopal would get the identity cards.