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Database mooted

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NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Women and Child Development (Independent charge) Renuka Chowdhury has suggested linking of adoption agencies and creation of a national database of children who could be adopted.

Inaugurating a two-day national meeting on adoption here on Thursday, the Minister said it was a matter of shame that illegal adoptions still took place . We have to set right the loopholes in the laws and in the system, she said.

Pointing out that there was lack of transparency in the adoption system, she said all agencies involved in adoptions should be linked centrally and a consolidated database of children should be created.

This would help people find out with ease where they can adopt a child from, she said while stressing on the need for removing procedural bottlenecks and streamlining the adoption process.

Referring to her Ministry's proposed ``cradle scheme'' for putting up for adoption abandoned girl children, Ms. Chowdhury said this would help to put a check on foeticide and infanticide and ensure that adopted girls were not used for trafficking.

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