UP: Yogi Govt Amends Law To Empower Transgender Community With Right To Inheritance Of Ancestral Agricultural Land

In a positive development, the Chief Minister (CM) Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh (UP) government amended a law to allow transgender people of the state to inherit ancestral agricultural land, reports Times of India.

This comes after the UP Cabinet cleared an amendment to the UP Revenue Code of 2006, removing the limitations of nomenclature in inheritance laws which categorically made mention of 'sons', 'daughters', 'married', 'unmarried' and 'widow' as ones who would rightfully inherit such ancestral lands.

In March 2019, the State Law Commission had submitted a proposal for a law acknowledging the inheritance rights of the "third gender" to the Yogi government. In the proposal, the Commission's chairperson Justice AN Mittal had pointed out that all the inheritance laws left out the people of the third gender.

As per the amended rule, the people of the third gender now hold the succession and physical rights to the property. The state Cabinet's note said that the move would accord equal rights and social recognition to the community.