Job opportunities for sexual minorities
Manufacturing unit at Krishi Vignana Kendra: Dr Shivakumar Magada
Mangaluru, June 6: Krishi Vignana Kendra (KVK) head Dr Shivakumar Magada said that steps would be taken to set up manufacturing unit on the premises of KVK to help the sexual minorities build a respectful life by taking up agriculture related self employment opportunities.
Speaking at a workshop on conducting skills development training programme under the Parivarthana Trust for the sexual minorities, at the zilla panchayat hall here on Wednesday, he said that people could take up dairy farming, mushroom farming, manufacturing of agriculture related products, bakery products, fishiculture and other self employments without any investment and education qualification.
At this moment, sexual minority community member Sanjana said that they were finding it difficult to given even the rent for the houses. Moreover, they were not getting the rented houses in the city because of some social stigma. Then how can they start self employment, the member asked.
Responding to it, Shivakumar said that if the sexual minorities came forward, he would make arrangement for manufacturing unit on the premises of the KVK. They could also stay there during their training. The KVK would make arrangement for capital investment required for some raw materials. They could make their products in their own ‘Parivarthan’ brand and sell them, he said.
He said that the state government has introduced Saviruchi Kaituttu Canteen exclusively for women and it has good demand. Sexual minorities who are interested in cooking could involve themselves in it, he said.
But another sexual minority member said that “We can prepare good and tasty food. But who will take our food. When the society is still keeping us away from the mainstream, what is the use of preparing tasty food”, the member said.
Saviruchi canteen
Shivakumar said that the state government had introduced Saviruchi canteen which has good demand. Sexual minorities could involve and take up the responsibility of the canteens, he said.
But a member from the sexual minority community said that “we can prepare good and tasty food with cleanliness. Who will take our food? When the society is not in a position to accept us, who will take our food and what is the use of preparing food”, the member asked.
But Zilla Panchayat project officer Lokesh said that the food prepared by the sexual minorities could be taken for government sponsored programmes. Let the change begin from the government side, he advised.
Rudseti director James D’Souza, Lead Bank manager Francis, woman and child welfare department deputy director Sundara Poojary, KGTTI staff Megha and Priya explained about the various employment schemes.
‘Treat us like others’
“Everybody talks that the society has changed, perception of the people is changed towards us and we should come to the mainstream of the society. I have learnt beautician course and working as a beautician. But a few days ago, when I was with my friends in one night, police have come and forced me to become nude and assaulted me”, another member said.
“We like to live with you people. Even then, we are being separated as sexual minorities. Are we not looking like women? If the same assault was happened on a woman, what would be the response of the society? Why do you separate us? Treat us like you people and allow us to live like others in the society”, she said.
Parivarthana Trust head Violet Pereira, and more than 20 sexual minorities participated in the workshop.
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Vivek Ramaswamy indicates massive government job cuts in US
Washington, Nov 16: Entrepreneur-turned politician Vivek Ramaswamy, who along with Tesla owner Elon Musk has been nominated in-charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, has indicated a massive cut in federal government jobs in the United States.
"Elon Musk and I are in a position to start the mass deportations of millions of unelected federal bureaucrats out of the DC bureaucracy. That, too, is how we're going to save this country," Ramaswamy, an Indian American, said at an event in Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Thursday.
"I don't know if you've got to know Elon yet, but he doesn't bring a chisel. He brings a chainsaw. We are going to be taking it to that bureaucracy. It's going to be a lot of fun,” he said.
“We've been taught to believe over the last four years that we have become a nation in decline, that we're at the end of the ancient Roman Empire. All we have is to fight over the scraps of some shrinking pie. I don't think we have to stay as that nation in decline. I think with what happened last week, we're back to being a nation in our ascent. A nation whose best days are actually still ahead of us,” Ramaswamy said.
"It is going to be morning in America, the start of a new dawn, the start of a country where our kids are going to grow up and we're going to tell them and mean it, that you get ahead in the United States again with your own hard work and commitment and dedication, that you're free to speak your mind at every step of the way, that the best person gets the job regardless of their colour," he said.
Meanwhile, Musk and Ramaswamy announced that they will livestream every week to update the American public on the progress of the works by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
"Our goal is to shave the size of government and to be as transparent as possible with the public. Weekly 'Dogecasts' will start soon," Ramaswamy said.
“DOGE's job is to create a government of a size and scope that our Founders would be proud of. Elon Musk and I look forward to fulfilling the mandate given to us by President Trump,” he said.
Ramaswamy, however, argued that too much bureaucracy means less innovation and higher costs. "That’s a real problem with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and countless other 3-letter agencies," he said, adding, "They are utterly agnostic to how their daily decisions stifle new inventions and impose costs that deter growth."
"We are assembling the brightest minds in the country. This is the equivalent of a modern Manhattan Project. I think the major problem holding our country back is a federal bureaucracy. Target that cost, save the money, restore self-governance," Ramaswamy said.
