Urge CP to appoint TGs as Home Guards, SPOs
Hijda associations operating here would help the Commissionerate Police in controlling crimes in the capital. leaders of different Hijda bodies promised this to Twin City Commissioner of Police Dr RP Sharma during an interaction programme held here on Saturday.
Stating that open sex trade is still going on in night time in the city, some police officers said several transgender (TG) persons are seen breaching law by standing on the roadsides in search of customers.
“Drunkard youths, who make deals with the TGs, are creating nuisance in the prime locality of the city by indulging in rash driving and other anti-social works during night times,” said an Inspector of the Commissionerate Police. Dr Sharma discussed the issue in detail and asked the leaders of the Hijda bodies to advise their people not to be indulged in such works.
Mamata Gharana Welfare Trust president Madhuri Kinnar said the TGs were engaging themselves in sex trade due to Government failure. “In spite of their repeated demands, the State Government neither gives employment nor any facilities for their upliftment. Then how can a TG will earn bread and butter,” Madhuri pointed out.
Odisha Kinnar Mahasangha president Mira Kinnar urged the Police Commissioner to appoint Hinjidas as home gurads and special police officers (SPOs) under the Commissionerate Police jurisdiction. So that some of the TGs could get employment. later, Nikhila Odisha Hijda Mahasangha president Pratap Kumar Sahu suggested that Dr Sharma form a squad comprising some leaders of the Hijda bodies and some police officials to keep eye on the TGs coming from other places of the State to work as sex workers in the city.
Among others, Additional Commissioner of Police Dr Santosh Bala, DCP Headquarters Amrita Das, Sakha president Subham Kinnar, Suraksha president Menaka Kinnar participated in the interaction.