Kochi Metro To Extend Helping Hand To Transgenders, Will Offer Them Jobs In Customer Relations
The Kochi Metro Rail has now come out with a proposal to provide transgenders with jobs in customer relations, housekeeping and crowd management. According to police, there are about 128 transgenders in Kochi alone.
The Kochi Metro Rail has now come out with a proposal to provide transgenders with jobs in customer relations, housekeeping and crowd management.
Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) will become the first metro service in India to employ transgenders as its staff members.
Kochi Metro
KMRL has now proposed to provide them with jobs in customer relations, housekeeping and crowd management once the Metro rail becomes operational next year.
KMRL managing director Elias George said the decision was taken considering the social stigma the community faces.
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¡°This will be the first time a metro rail body will give employment to transgenders, who find it difficult to get absorbed in the mainstream job market. They would not be the KMRL staff, but would be part of the system,¡¯¡¯ he added.
He said they will be hired on an experimental basis after a security screening by police.
Kochi Metro will also have the largest contingent of women staff members once it becomes operational.
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According to the government, there are around 25,000 transgenders in the state. Last year Kerala had become the first Indian state to announce a transgender policy.
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