Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has ordered all the States to get the childcare homes run by the Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity (MoC) inspected immediately following the surfacing of cases of alleged illegal adoptions carried out by them, the Ministry said in a statement. Ms. Gandhi also directed the States to ensure that all the childcare institutions (CCIs) are registered and linked to the country’s apex adoption body within a month. According to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, the registration of CCIs and their linking with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is mandatory, but some orphanages had challenged the validity of the clause, an official in the Women and Child Development Ministry said.
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has ordered all the States to get the childcare homes run by the Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity (MoC) inspected immediately following the surfacing of cases of alleged illegal adoptions carried out by them, the Ministry said in a statement. Ms. Gandhi also directed the States to ensure that all the childcare institutions (CCIs) are registered and linked to the country’s apex adoption body within a month. According to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, the registration of CCIs and their linking with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is mandatory, but some orphanages had challenged the validity of the clause, an official in the Women and Child Development Ministry said.