Overview

• The MoU formalizes collaboration under the Pride Place Transgender Persons Protection Cell to address safety and legal needs of LGBTQIA+ individuals across Telangana
• Under the agreement the Women Safety Wing and Yugantar will deliver crisis intervention, legal aid, mental health counselling and public awareness efforts tailored for the transgender and broader LGBTQIA+ community
• Yugantar will deploy resources from its Queer-Trans Wellness and Support Centre in Hyderabad to train Telangana Police officers in LGBTQIA+ sensitivity and case handling
• Additional Director General of Police Charu Sinha and Yugantar representatives signed the pact in Hyderabad, marking the shift from informal outreach to a structured partnership
• The collaboration exemplifies growing state–NGO cooperation in India’s post-2018 drive to institutionalize rights and support for LGBTQIA+ persons across the country