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In a first, Nine students register as ‘third gender’ for engineering CET exams in Maharashtra
Friday, March 17, 2017 IST
In a first, Nine students register as ‘third gender’ for engineering CET exams in Maharashtra


For the first time after students were given the selection of ticking the ‘third gender ’ column in registration paperwork, 9 students have chosen the option at the nation common entrance check (CET) for engineering colleges. even as registrations will cross on until the give up of March, the wide variety of students identifying themselves as the  third gender ought to growth.

“There’s no manner of locating out if these students surely belong to the third gender because this can be checked only when they appear for the entrance take a look at and observe for admissions. we are satisfied to provide anything encouragement is needed,” said Dayanand Ashram, joint director, Directorate of Technical training (DTE).

The choice to include a gender alternative apart from male and lady changed into taken by way of DTE in February, to comply with the 2014 perfect courtroom order asking the country to deal with transgenders as socially and economically backward and that they be allowed admission in instructional institutions and given employment as they belonged to the third gender.

In August 2014, the university offers commission (UGC) opened all its scholarships to humans from the third gender and also requested universities to make comparable adjustments to their admission technique and their campus. by means of June 2015, university of Mumbai had made this change to their admission forms by means of which include ‘different’ category.

Even as in 2015, not an unmarried application become acquired by MU under the third gender category, officers at MU have been amazed to receive a complete of 48 packages within the other category for diploma college admissions in 2016. a radical test by using varsity officers slowly found out that maximum of these college students had opted for the ‘different’ class through mistake while others had been no longer even aware about one of these characteristic inside the admission form.

 
 
 
 
 

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