The Odisha Disabled Peoples’ Network, a forum fighting for the cause of physically-challenged people, on Tuesday opposed the State Government’s decision to bring transgender and widow under the newly constituted Department of Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability. “It is a welcome step that the Government has considered our demand and constituted an exclusive department. But how can transgender and widow people be part of the departmentIJ On what logic the Government equalled them with disabled peopleIJ” questioned Sanayas Behera of the Odisha Disabled Peoples’ Network.