Shradha Chettri and Heena Kausar\/June 10 –\u00a0<\/b>Delhi University is transgender friendly but only on the application form.<\/p>\n
For the second year, the premier university is accepting applications under the \u2018other\u2019 gender category but apart from a section on the form, there are no facilities that can encourage transgender applicants to join.<\/p>\n
The single policy decision related to transgender applicants was taken last year. It said they will be barred from taking admission in women\u2019s colleges.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis rule remains unchanged. Any other policy decision, such as reservation, percentage benefit or infrastructure upgrades were not discussed specifically. If need be then the university will provide infrastructure and other requirement,\u201d said Manoj Sinha, member of the admission committee and Aryabhatta College principal.<\/p>\n
Last year ,66 aspirants had applied under the category but nor a single one joined \u2013 either because they did not meet the cut off or because they did not find the facilities and attitudes welcoming. This year, there are six applicants in the category so far.<\/p>\n
A study conducted by the university\u2019s department of \u2018adult, continuing education and extension\u2019 confirms that no student in this category was admitted to DU in 2015-2016.<\/p>\n
The study said it could be because of the lack of supporting infrastructure, grievance committees, formal orientation programme, and sensitisation programme for students and faculties.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere should be clear directives from the higher authorities such as UGC or the vice-chancellor for more trans-inclusive policies and resources. There is a need to revise the anti-discrimination policy in the light of transgender students,\u201d said Rajesh, who conducted the study and does a community outreach programme with such people.<\/p>\n
\u201cDU does not want to acknowledge the presence of transgender students. Since it is an open campus there is a need for elaborate sensitizing and creating awareness. Forget about infrastructure, the university first needs to put grievance redressal mechanism in place,\u201d said Rafiul a member of DU Queer Collective \u2014 an LGBT support group.<\/p>\n
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Shradha Chettri and Heena Kausar\/June 10 –\u00a0Delhi University is transgender friendly but only on the application form.
\nFor the second year, the premier university is accepting applications under the \u2018other\u2019 gender category but apart from a section on the form, there are no facilities that can encourage transgender applicants to join.
\nThe single policy decision related to transgender applicants was taken last year. It said they will be barred from taking admission in women\u2019s colleges.
\n\u201cThis rule remains unchanged. Any other policy decision, such as reservation, percentage benefit or infrastructure upgrades were not …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,621,490,11],"tags":[1029,524,458],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-delhi-university","tag-lgbt","tag-transgender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}