Zoya Khan becomes India's first transgender operator of Common Service Centre

Zoya Khan, India's first transgender operator of Common Service Centre from Vadodara district of Gujarat has started CSC work with a telemedicine consultation. Union Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad took to twitter to make an announcement.

New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday announced that Zoya Khan is India's first transgender operator of a Common Service Centre (CSC) in Gujarat.

"Zoya Khan is India's first transgender operator of Common Service Centre from Vadodara district of Gujarat. She has started CSC work with telemedicine consultation," read Prasad's tweet.

With telemedicine consultation services, the patients can get consultation via video calling from the nearest centre. He further said Khan through the service wants to support the transgender community by making them digitally literate.

"Her vision is to support the transgender community in making them digitally literate and give them better opportunities," Prasad added.

The Common Service Centre (CSC) is one of the project under digital India Programme.

As per the website, "It is a pan-India network catering to regional, geographic, linguistic and cultural diversity of the country, thus enabling the Government’s mandate of a socially, financially and digitally inclusive society."

(ANI REPORT)