Karnataka has become the first state in India to reserve jobs in public employment for transgender persons.
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Karnataka has become the first state in India to reserve jobs in public employment for transgender persons.
About the Reservation in jobs for Transgender
- The state government has amended the Karnataka Civil Services (General Recruitment) Rules, 1977 to provide for 1% horizontal reservation for the transgenders.
- The proposed amendment to Rule 9 Sub Rule (1D) was inserted to provide for 1% of vacancies which needs to be filled in any service or post by the state government from among the transgender candidates in each category of general, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and in each of the categories among the Other Backward Classes.
- Every Appointing Authority shall provide a separate column of “Others” along with the male gender and female gender in the application for the recruitment to any category of Group-A, B, C or D posts for the convenience of the transgender persons.
- The Recruitment Authority or the Appointing Authority shall not discriminate a transgender person while making the selection of appointment to any category of post.
Vertical reservations
- These are social reservations given under Article 16(4) in favour of the SCs, STs and OBCs.
Horizontal reservations
- The horizontal reservations are provided to the persons with disabilities under Article 16(1).
- Under horizontal reservations, various groups such as ex-army personnel, displaced persons, women under Article 15(3) have also been benefitted.
- Horizontal reservations are interlocking and cut across vertical reservations whereby reservations under a horizontal category are provided within an existing category of vertical reservations.
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