The National Portal for Transgender Persons provides a platform for transgender person to apply online for transgender identity Certificate and Identity card. The most important feature of this Portal is that it helps the transgender person to get the I- Card without any physical interface and without having to visit any office. Through the Portal, applicant can monitor the status of their application and can download their certificate of identity, thereby ensuring transparency in the process.

The information of number applications for transgender identity certificate and number of transgender identity certificate issued, State wise, is as follows-

Sl.No.	State Name	Total Applications	Certificate Issued
1	Andaman & Nicobar Islands / UT	1	0
2	Andhra Pradesh	2525	2124
3	Arunachal Pradesh	8	2
4	Assam	323	102
5	Bihar	341	210
6	Chandigarh / UT	28	13
7	Chhattisgarh	762	567
8	Daman &Diu,Dadra& Nagar Haveli /UT	1	0
9	Delhi / UT	847	290
10	Goa	17	11
11	Gujarat	1692	1388
12	Haryana	267	89
13	Himachal Pradesh	55	25
14	Jammu & Kashmir	226	135
15	Jharkhand	234	102
16	Karnataka	2156	980
17	Kerala	1480	1066
18	Lakshadweep / UT	2	0
19	Madhya Pradesh	852	684
20	Maharashtra	3483	2478
21	Manipur	549	423
22	Meghalaya	23	13
23	Mizoram	3	0
24	Nagaland	15	7
25	Odisha	2694	2237
26	Puducherry / UT	246	83
27	Punjab	227	112
28	Rajasthan	378	238
29	Sikkim	36	35
30	Tamil Nadu	1109	581
31	Telangana	1236	631
32	Tripura	41	21
33	Uttar Pradesh	1070	514
34	Uttarakhand	82	46
35	West Bengal	1106	597
Total		24115	15803

In Census 2011 option of male, female and others was provided in gender section. A total of 4,87,803 persons opted for “other”. However this does not confirm that the persons opted for “other” option are only transgender persons.

Several sensitization programmes are conducted for the community. Several training programmes for district level authorities have been conducted by the National Institute of Social Defence (NISD), an autonomous organisation under the Ministry, from time to time for increasing the number of applications for TG certificate.

A total number of 3225 applications are pending for more than mandated 30 days’ time to issue the ID card for TG person. The Ministry, through National Institute of Social Defence, organizes sensitization and awareness programme from time to time for district functionaries to reduce the pendency.

The number of applications rejected, State-wise :

	(d) State wise number of rejected applications
Sl. No.	State Name	Rejected /Not-eligible Applications
1	Andaman & Nicobar Islands / UT	0
2	Andhra Pradesh	275
3	Arunachal Pradesh	3
4	Assam	105
5	Bihar	69
6	Chandigarh / UT	9
7	Chhattisgarh	43
8	Daman & Diu,Dadra & Nagar Haveli /UT	0
9	Delhi / UT	293
10	Goa	6
11	Gujarat	266
12	Haryana	91
13	Himachal Pradesh	28
14	Jammu & Kashmir	59
15	Jharkhand	64
16	Karnataka	236
17	Kerala	351
18	Lakshadweep / UT	2
19	Madhya Pradesh	81
20	Maharashtra	535
21	Manipur	71
22	Meghalaya	6
23	Mizoram	1
24	Nagaland	2
25	Odisha	374
26	Puducherry / UT	123
27	Punjab	49
28	Rajasthan	84
29	Sikkim	1
30	Tamil Nadu	338
31	Telangana	249
32	Tripura	5
33	Uttar Pradesh	190
34	Uttarakhand	19
35	West Bengal	279
	Total	4307

 

For Transgender specific medical service like gender re-assignment surgery it is mandatory to have transgender identity certificate and for general medical service requirement, the transgender persons can avail the service through Ayushman Bharat empanelled hospitals.

The details of the beneficiaries of Garima Greh shelter home and the details of funds allocated are as follows-

Sl. No.	Name of the State	Name of Garima Greh	No. of  Beneficiaries	Fund released/ Utilised till date ( Rs.)
1.	Delhi	Mitr trust - South West Delhi	106	63,12,373
2.	Odisha	Sakha - Khordha	52	57,93,572
3.	Tamil Nadu	Transgender Rights Association Chennai	55	38,93,815
4.	Bihar	Dostana safar - Patna	41	58,80,300
5.	Maharashtra	Kinnarasmita - Thane	36	60,34,462
6		Tweet foundation - Mumbai City	67	56,03,503
7		Aarju Foundation - Raigad	82	54,91,586
8	Chhattisgarh	Mitwa Sankalp Samiti - Raipur	94	54,04,463
9.	West Bengal	Gokhale Road Bandhan - Kolkata	48	59,27,509
10.	West Bengal	Kolkata Rista - Kolkata	51	29,17,200
11.	Gujarat	Lakshya Trust - Vadodara	70	29,17,200
12.	Rajasthan	Nai Bhor Sansta - Jaipur	33	29,17,200
Gross Total			735	5,90,93,183

The Government has not set up new Garima Greh shelters apart from 12 Garima Grehs. Further, setting up of new Garima Greh is considered as and when requested by State Govt subject to eligibility criteria.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri A. Narayanaswamy in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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