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Aizawl: The Mizoram government on Tuesday canceled bids for a proposed shelter for the LGBTQI community.
The cancellation came a day after the state’s most influential organization, the Young Mizo Association (YMA), opposed the project and asked the Chief Minister. Zoramthanga to cancel it.
The notice issued by the State Department of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation (UD&PA) on Tuesday said that the tender has been cancelled. “The notice inviting bids for the construction of a shelter for LGBTQI at Sakawrtuichhun in Aizawl from the funds received from the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs as the 2nd rank SPARK incentive award 2019-20 among NE and Himalayan states is cancelled,” notice the said.
The government had earlier invited tenders for the proposed shelter.
The project was planned to be built in Sakawrtuichhun on the western outskirts of Aizawl, according to the government notice on December 6.
Some political parties have proposed the LGBTQI shelter, such as the People’s Conference (PC) and the Young Mizo Association (YMA), the largest and most influential civil society organization in the state.
The leader of the central committee of YMA or Central YMA (CYMA) called on Zoramthanga on Monday about the issue and urged him not to go ahead with the project.
UD&PA Director H. Liazela said the project is being initiated as per the guidelines of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and not from the end of the state government.
He said that the NHRC in July 2021 asked all states to comply with its mandate to build shelters for the LGBTQI community based on the recommendations of the main group on LGBTQI.
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He said that the project sanctioning committee of the UD&PA department in May this year sanctioned the construction of a special shelter house for the LGBTQI community under the National Urban Living Mission (NLUM) after the management of the blessing house (a Deduction Center) in Sakawrtuichhun, which was looking for a shelter house, agreed to build the project in their area.
Rs 40 lakh, which the UD&PA department received as an incentive for its outstanding performance under NLUM, has been earmarked for the project, he said.
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