Madhya Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (MPSLSA) organised a workshop in collaboration with The Humsafar Trust for transgender community on Thursday. Aim of the workshop was to coordinate efforts to help members of transgender community obtain identity and bring them into mainstream of the society, as well as to provide information about Government schemes that could benefit them. Justice Sheel Nagu, Administrative Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Executive Chairman of MPSLSA and other officials from Social Justice and Disabled Welfare Department, Police Department and Paralegal volunteers participated in the workshop.

During the workshop, Justice Nagu stressed upon the need for coordinated efforts to address legal and other problems faced by transgender community and assured participants that every possible effort will be made to solve their issues immediately. Later, Member Secretary of MPSLSA Rajeev Karmahe and Additional Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh discussed the Supreme Court’s guidelines on providing legal recognition and identity to transgenders.

Manaswini V of The Humsafar Trust provided detailed information about the organisation’s activities for benefit of transgender community. Professor Bharti Shukla, Dr Rajkumari Bansal, Advocate Navendu Mishra and Abdul Rahim also spoke about issues faced by transgender community and draw attention to the need for greater awareness and sensitisation programmes to be organised throughout Madhya Pradesh.

Deputy Secretary of MPSLSA, Swapnashree Singh conducted proceedings of the workshop and also explained the purpose and need of the event. The programme ended with a question and answer session, during which the experts addressed queries raised by participants. Around 100 people attended the workshop. Under the guidance of Justice Sheel Nagu, MPSLSA also organised a workshop on creating awareness about redressal of pre-litigation cases of commercial nature through online mediation, in coordination with Team Pre-Solve 360, on Wednesday.