Make education free for transgenders: DUSU secy to HRD

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar. (Express File Photo)

Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) Secretary Mahamedhaa Nagar has written to the Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar, proposing that education for transgender students at the university be made free. IGNOU and Jamia Millia Islamia’s distance learning programme have already made education free for transgenders.

“As a part of a progressive society and a responsible citizen of the country, following Honorable High Court’s notice to consider transgenders as the third gender of our society, I would like to propose an initiative and a welcoming step for our esteemed university. There should be free education for transgenders in DU… we may lead towards an inclusive society as education is the only hope for transsexual people to become free of social discrimination,” Nagar wrote to Javadekar on Monday.