The Centre has constituted a National Council for Transgender Persons through a notification. The Social Justice and Empowerment Minister will be the ex-officio Chairperson and Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment will be ex-officio Vice-Chairperson.
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The Social Justice Minister would be the Council’s chairperson and its members would include officials from some other Ministries.
Five nominated members from the community — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, Gopi Shankar Madurai, Meera Parida, Zainab Javid Patel and Kak Chingtabam Shyamcand Sharma — are also part of the Council.
The council is formed under Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.
The council has five main functions:
- Advising the central government on the formulation of policies, programmes, legislation and projects with respect to transgender persons;
- Monitoring and evaluating the impact of policies and programmes designed for achieving equality and full participation of transgender persons;
- Reviewing and coordinating the activities of all the departments;
- Redressing grievances of transgender persons; and
- Performing such other functions as prescribed by the Centre.
