Kochi metro is an under-construction metro system that will
cater to the needs of Kochi, Kerala. The first phase of the metro will cover a
13.4 kilometre distance
Kochi
metro has formally appointed 23 members of a transgender community for varied
jobs. This is the first time that a government owned company has officially
appointed transgenders.
Here's all
you need to know about the move:
1.The
23 workers will be a part of the 530 Kudumbasree workers at 11 stations in
Kochi Metro's Aluva-Palrivattom corridor.
2.
While the better educated among the transgender community will be posted at the
ticket counters, the lesser qualified will be deputed for housekeeping works at
stations.
3.
All of these workers have been appointed after written tests and interviews,
and have been given training in soft and technical skills and are safety
trained.
4.
The Kudumbasree sources state that the 530-member workforce is ready to assume their
jobs ranging from ticket vending, housekeeping, parking, customer relations,
gardening and to man the coach-depot canteen at Muttom.
5.
They are likely to be deployed in two or three shifts, depending on needs.
"We
would like to give members of the transgender community their rightful share in
different jobs at stations. There will be no discrimination between them and
women workers," said Elias George, KMRL's MD.
"The
metro agency is the first government-owned company in India to formally appoint
them. I hope other firms in Kerala give them a respectable opportunity to work.
Society's mindset towards them will change only by direct interaction with
them. Moreover, members of that community cannot at all be blamed since they
are born with such a biological situation," he added in a report by The Hindu.
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