Bombay High Court seeks govt reply on plea seeking reservation of jobs for transgenders in MSETCL
The Bombay High Court Tuesday sought a reply from the state government and the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Ltd. (MSETCL) on a plea by a transgender person, seeking direction to the company to provide reservation in jobs for the transgender community.
A special bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice A A Sayed was hearing a plea by one Vinayak Kashid, a graduate in Electrical Engineering and a post graduate in Technology (Electrical Power System Engineering) course, seeking modification to the advertisement issued by MahaTransco in May this year for mass recruitment.
The petitioner claimed that she came across an advertisement issued by MahaTransco on May 4 to recruit Assistant Engineers (Transmission) on 170 vacant posts.
