Summary Transgender persons have started selling and distribution of eco-friendly bags.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Ban on plastic bags in federal capital brings new job opportunities for transgender persons as Islamabad local government has allowed them to make stalls without any charges for the sale of eco-friendly bags.
As per details, the transgender persons have started selling and distribution of eco friendly bags as part of the Prime Minister Imran Khan’s “Clean, Green Pakistan” campaign banning the sale of plastic bags. They expressed that they were happy earning money with hard work instead of begging.
The transgender persons are getting attention of public by selling new eco friendly bags on road sides in Islamabad. People praised this new effort of transgender persons.
Members of the transgender community said that the government had previously ignored them in the “Clean, Green Pakistan” and other drives and it was on the community’s own insistence that the administration had now invited them to be a part of the campaign to ban plastics.
Islamabad deputy commissioner Hamza Shafqaat said authorities had given transgender people the incentive of setting up free stalls to sell paper and fabric bags in the expensive Islamabad capital to help them earn a respectable earning and participate in the the country’s efforts to combat pollution.
He said authorities had already taken on board prominent members of the transgender community.
Shafqaat said though his administration would not provide free bags or capital to transgender people to start their work, make shift stalls would be provided to them free of cost and they would not have to pay the daily rent of between Rs15,000 and Rs20,000.
