Karnataka Government reserves 1% reservation for the Transgender in government jobs.

  

Karnataka Government has decided to grant 1 percent reservation to Transgender candidates in government jobs. This proposal has applied to Government jobs only. The government has submitted a report in the High Court to inform that a notification had already been issued after amending the Karnataka Civil Service (General Recruitment) Rule, 1977.
The notification also states that if In case of non-availability of transgender candidates, the job could be given to male or female from the same category.

The Amendment in Rule 9 states that “In sub-rule (1) of the rule 9 of the said rules after clause (1C) the following shall be inserted namely :- “ Notwithstanding anything contained in the rules of recruitment specially made in respect of any service or post, in all direct recruitment one percentage of vacancies set apart for that method in each of the categories of General Merit, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and in each of the categories among Other Backward Classes shall, subject to any general instructions that may be issued by the Government regarding the manner of appointment, be filled from among transgender candidates:

 Provided that, every Appointing Authority shall provide a separate column of “Others” along with male gender and female gender in the application for recruitment to any category of Group-A, B, C or D posts for the convenience of transgender persons. The Recruitment Authority or the Appointing Authority shall not discriminate a transgender person while making selection of appointment to any category of post. Provided further that, if sufficient number of eligible transgender persons are not available, to the extent of one percent, the unfilled vacancies shall be filled by male or female candidates, as the case may be, belonging to the same category.”
 

After issuing the amended notification for the people of the transgender community, the Karnataka government has also sent a copy of it to a division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Srinivas Oka and Justice Suraj Govindraj of the Karnataka High Court.

 

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