National Portal for Transgender persons Subject: Governance Context: Just over six months after it was launched, the Centre’s national portal for issuing certificates of identity to transgender persons has issued 1,557 certificates as of June 16, 2021, according to Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry data. Concept: In November 2020, Union Minister for Social […]

Subject: Governance Context: Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment launched a ‘National Portal for Transgender Persons’. Concept: This National Portal for Transgender Persons has been developed within 2 months of Notification of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules, 2020 on 29 September, 2020. This Portal would help a transgender person in applying for a […]