Delhi HC Raps Centre, Delhi Govt Over Delay in Implementing Transgender Job Quotas

The Delhi High Court has pulled up the Central and Delhi governments for failing to implement reservation in public employment for transgender persons, as mandated by the Supreme Court in the NALSA (2014) judgment.

The Court was hearing a plea by a transgender applicant who applied for a court attendant post but found no reservation category.

A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela converted the plea into a PIL and sought responses from the Ministry of Social Justice and Delhi’s Social Welfare Department, directing the Delhi government to take a decision within ten days.

The case will be heard next on November 19.