New Delhi: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has approved the Kerala government’s request for two supernumerary or additional seats for transgender students in both three-year LLB degree courses and five-year integrated LLB programmes across law colleges in the state.

These two seats would be in addition to the existing seats in these legal education centres. The approval is interim though, as a petition seeking reservation for transgender students is pending before the Kerala High Court.

Several stakeholders welcomed the move and asserted that more sensitisation regarding the community is required at large. Show Full Article

The BCI cleared the state’s request on 4 November. In a letter to the Kerala government, the country’s apex legal education regulator gave nod to the state to add t

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