Legal awareness campaign for transgenders soon
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Tribune News Service
Shimla, December 28
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The State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) would start an awareness campaign for transgenders as they belong to “extremely marginalised” section of society said Prem Pal Ranta, member secretary, SLSA.
Speaking at the weekly webinar on human rights, organised by Umang Foundation, he appealed to youth to come forward to create legal awareness in society, particularly in rural areas, by joining the SLSA as para legal volunteers.
He said SC, ST, women, children, transgenders, prisoners, mentally ill people, drug edicts, calamity-affected people and the elderly having annual income below Rs 3 lakh were eligible to get the SLSA’s free legal support.
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Ranta said that the SLSA identified 45 orphan and 67 semi-orphan children, who were the victims of the pandemic, and ensured all kinds of support to them. At the Nahan jail, a special Covid hospital was made after the intervention of the SLSA and a special 90-day parole was provided to decongest the jail, he added.
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