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Transgenders to get free education
TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University has come forward to offer free education and job training to bring about academic and economic inclusion of transgenders through its Centre for Distance Education. Likewise, skill training and job placement would be undertaken through the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development, Vice-Chancellor M. Ponnavaikko announced recently at the inaugural of a seminar on Transgender Issues and Concerns for Social Workers, organised by the Universitys Department of Social Work.The Department organised the seminar with the purpose of finding answers to crucial questions pertaining to the gender categorisation of transgenders, the societys readiness to accept them as equals, and the psycho-social issues surrounding them, said P. Ilango, Professor and Head of the Department. The Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy would analyse the methodologies for their social inclusion, Centre Director K. Raja Mohan Rao added. S. Srinivasan, Project Officer, Tamil Nadu Women Development Corporation, Tiruchi, informed that 135 transgenders in the district have enrolled as members of the exclusive Welfare Board. Posted by: john frum 2008-11-03 |
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