High court directs SBI to allow hiring of third gender

Source:- indiatimes.com

KOLKATA: Financial behemoth State Bank of India will have to alter its recruitment procedure after a transgender person took it to court for not providing the third gender category in its application and won the case.

The Calcutta high court on Thursday directed SBI to not only accept Atri Kar’s application for the post of probationary officer as a transgender person, it also directed the bank to treat Kar’s application in the reserve category as directed by the Supreme Court.

Originally a male, Kar is now undergoing hormone therapy in the quest to transform into a female after undergoing sex realignment surgery.

The 27-year-old Tribeni resident was forced to move court after SBI turned a deaf ear to the pleas to furnish an application that had provision for the third gender. Kar said she had no option but seek legal redress when there was no corrective measure forthcoming even after she contacted the SBI chairman’s office.