20-year-old Balusha, who has special needs, was breaking into spurts of dancing. “I am very excited to go in this metro,” he said. 400 people had been selected on Sunday as the first passengers on the new Kochi Metro, inaugurated the previous day by PM Modi. Also included for first dibs were women from an old-age…
An initiative offering jobs to a handful of members of Kerala’s hijra community aims to tackle prejudice and bring transgender people into the mainstream. Source:https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/12/india-train-network-makes-history-employing-transgender-workers-hijra-kochi-kerala