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Uttar Pradesh to get India's first transgender university

| @indiablooms | Dec 28, 2019, at 03:14 pm

Kushinagar/IBNS: The country's first transgender university will be set up in Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh, media reports said.

The university will facilitate the members of the transgender community to study from class one to Post-Graduation and also to get PhD degree.

The university will be built by the Akhil Bharatiya Kinnar Siksha Seva Trust or All-India Transgender Education Service Trust.

The trust president Dr. Krishna Mohan Mishra said as quoted by Hindustan Times, "It is the first of its kind in the country where members of transgender community will be able to get education and the process of has already been initiated. From January 15 next year, two children who are brought up by the community members will get admission and from February and March other classes will start."

"In the university, the transgender community will be able to study right from class one to PG and even do research and get PhD degree."

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