No transgender applied for vacancies in HC, says Registrar
The Hindu
The posts of office assistant, chobdar and others were notified in March this year
The Madras High Court on Tuesday closed a public interest litigation petition after it was informed that no transgender had applied for the posts of office assistant, chobdar and so on in the High Court administration pursuant to a recruitment notification issued by it in March this year.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice P.D. Audikesavalu took note of the submission made by Registrar (Recruitment) that the notification had clarified that transgender persons would be entitled to apply for the vacancies for which applications had been invited.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.