No provision to allow transgender persons into NCC, Kerala HC told ANI | Updated: Dec 16, 2020 02:25 IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], December 16 (ANI): The National Cadet Corps informed the Kerala High Court that that transgender person cannot be allowed into the NCC as there is no provision for the same.
The divisions created in NCC were only for boys and girl cadets as per the existing policy, the NCC said.
It also informed that it is the prerogative of the central government to constitute a new division for the transgender.
The submission by Lieutenant Colonel Prem Chand Jha, Officer Commanding, Kerala Battalion NCC, Thiruvananthapuram was made in response to a petition filed by Hina Haneefa, a transwoman and a student of Thiruvananthapuram University college, challenging the NCC s exclusion of transgender persons from their program in the college.