Separate column for transgender on electoral rolls

Transgenders will be registered as ‘other’ in the new format of the electoral roll

New Delhi: Transgender will be allowed to have a separate third identity on electoral rolls, Chief Election Commissioner Navin B Chawla said.

“We examined the request in depth and permitted transgenders to register as ‘Other’ or ‘O’,” Chawla said while delivering the second annual Mother Teresa Memorial lecture on ‘Electoral Democracy in India’.

He said the Election Commission had also revised the format of the electoral rolls accordingly, reports IANS.

“Besides, relevant forms used by the Commission wherein there is a provision of indication of sex of the elector have been suitably amended,” Chawla added.

Instructions, he said, had been sent out to all electoral registration authorities in the country to immediately implement the decision.

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