Transgenders to serve as Traffic Volunteers in Hyderabad
- Telangana CM Announces New Opportunity for Transgender Community
- Police Department Directed to Recruit Transgender Traffic Volunteers
- Empowering Transgender Community Through Public Service Roles
NEWS CHARIOT (Hyderabad, Nov.15) : Giving good news to the people of the transgender community, the Telangana Chief Minister A.Revanth Reddy directed the officials of the police department to appoint transgenders as traffic volunteers in Hyderabad City.
In a statement released by the Chief Minister’s office, CM Reddy instructed the officials to finalize a special dress code and salary for transgenders, similar to that of Home Guards.
The recruitment will be carried out on an experimental basis, with transgenders deployed at drunk driving checkpoints and other high-traffic areas to help reduce increasing traffic violations in the city.
Keeping in view of growing traffic problems in Hyderabad city, the Chief Minister asked the officials to appoint transgenders as traffic volunteers in the high-traffic zones in the first phase. The services of Transgenders should be utilised at signal-jumping locations and prevent the violation of traffic rules, he said.
“The CM directed the officials to implement the decision in an experimental manner at the earliest,” it added
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