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Aizwal: Mizoram’s largest civil society organization Young Mizo Association (YMA) has strongly opposed the proposed construction of a shelter for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, queers (or those who question their gender identity or sexual orientation) and intersex (LGBTQI) ) the community. The state, a leader at the top of the organization said on Monday.
The State Department of Urban Development and Poverty (UD&PA) issued a notice on December 6 inviting invitations for the construction of a shelter for the LGBTQI community at Sakawrtuichhun on the western outskirts of the state capital Aizawl.
Leaders of the central committee of the Young Mizo Association or Central YMA on Monday met the chief minister Zoramthanga and asked him to cancel the project, the organization’s president R. Lalngheta said.
“We request the chief minister to cancel the project because establishing a shelter for the LGBTQI community is not safe and is not acceptable for the Mizo society now,” Lalgheta said.
Zoramthanga assured them that the project will be canceled and will discuss the issue with deputy chief minister Tawnluia, who also holds the UD&PA portfolio, he said.
Meanwhile, UD&PA director H. Liazela said the project is being initiated according to 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.
“It is not an autonomous project of the state government. Instead, the project is being taken up as per the mandate of the NHRC based on the recommendations of the core committee,” he said.
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Lianzela said that the project sanction 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 Livelihood Mission (NLUM) after the management of Blessing House (a de-addiction center) in Sakawrtuichhun , who was looking for a shelter, 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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