Special drives to identify children fit for adoption

More than 2,700 are staying in NGO homes in State

Officials of the Women Development and Child Welfare (WD&CW) and the Juvenile Welfare Departments will conduct special drives on the Child Care Institutions (CCIs) to identify the children fit for adoption.

Children staying in the CCIs without the Child Welfare Committees’ (CWCs) orders will be identified and made legally free for adoption to receive parental care at the proposed ‘Adoption Melas’ . As many as 900 CCIs are registered with the government in which 32,000 children are staying. However, hundreds aged between 0-18 years are staying three without the knowledge of the CWCs.

Pending application

“Our aim is to give the children to the couples, who applied for children, as per the procedure. More than 2,700 children, who are fit for adoption but do not have necessary documents, are in the CCIs. The teams will visit the homes, produce the children before the CWCs, prepare the documents and clear the 1,387 pending applications seeking children for adoption,” said WD&CW Commissioner H. Arun Kumar. The teams will also identify the unregistered CCIs, if any, Joint Director (Juvenile Welfare) B.D.V. Prasad Murthy said.

Mr. Arun Kumar said under Section 46 of the Juvenile Justice Act, the government was planning to conduct aftercare programmes for young adults between 18 and 21 to provide vocational training to them with better livelihood, once they come out from the CCIs. “The children should stay less time [short stay] in homes and enjoy the family life, care and protection. I request the CCI managements to understand the trauma of the issueless couples and cooperate with the teams during the special drives,” the Commissioner said.