Transgenders, disabled included in electoral rolls, says BBMP Comm

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner Tushar Girinath held a meeting with officials on Tuesday and instructed them to ensure that names of transgender persons and disabled individuals don’t go missing from electoral rolls.

He told members of the transgender community present at the meeting that the objectives in question can be fulfilled by way of awareness programmes, apart from other measures.

Girinath claimed that there were 9,182 transgender people in Bengaluru, adding that 9,085 of them had identification for the same. The rest would be accommodated at the earliest, he added