The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), which went to Supreme Court for getting transgenders an independent identity in society, is unlikely to join the legal fight of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer (LGBQ) community to quash IPC Section 377 that criminalizes sexual union between persons of same gender.
Speaking at an interaction with mediapersons, NALSA Executive Chairman Justice Ranjan Gogoi of the Supreme Court said, "There is no dearth of people to assist them (LGBQ) that NALSA has to intervene in the matter. At present, NALSA schemes are oriented towards reaching over 100 crore people in the countryside who do not have access to even basic rights." Justice Gogoi indicated that NALSA must be "slow" to approach the Court espousing the cause of certain groups.
Since taking over as Chairman in August last year, Justice Gogoi has initiated steps to open legal literacy clubs in schools, digitizing 700 legal service clinics in jails, organizing legal camps in each district, and beginning of a child rights protection cell in association with NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan.