District collector Pravin Kumar hands over baby Sarayu for adoption to Vennisa Christina Sathur from Spain at his office in Vizag on Tuesday. (Photo: DC)

District collector Pravin Kumar hands over baby Sarayu for adoption to Vennisa Christina Sathur from Spain at his office in Vizag on Tuesday. (Photo: DC)

Visakhapatnam: A two-year-old orphan girl child from Visakhapatnam has found a new home in Spain. A single woman from Spain adopted a two-year-old girl child from Visakhapatnam here on Tuesday. After the rules and regulation as per the guidelines of the Central Adoption Resource Authority followed, district collector Pravin Kumar handed over the girl child to Vennisa Christina Sathur, a Spain citizen. District Child Protection Officer A. Satyanarayana was also present. The girl child’s name is Sarayu.

He said the woman had applied seeking adoption through online platform of the CARA. In 2016-17, Americans, Italians and Spanish nationals adopted most Indian children. According to Child Protection officials, the changes made two years ago has made little easier for foreign nationals to adopt special needs and older children, who are now moved sooner to the list of prospective adoptive children for foreign nationals if they are not picked for adoption by Indian nationals after a specified period of time.

Moreover, the Foreign Ministry is no longer insisting on a separate birth certificate to issue a passport to an adopted child. The court order which is necessary for adoption will suffice as proof of birth date. Instead of running from pillar to post to obtain a birth certificate, especially for orphans and abandoned children, foreigners can get an Indian passport for their adopted children based only on the court order.

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the state insisting on mandatory registration of orphanages under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act by December 15, at least 180 institutions have informed the government that they are not willing to register and are planning to shut down their operations.

The orphanages are citing serious financial crunch and loss of decisionmaking powers with regard to the admission of children, if they are brought under the JJ Act. A couple of such applications sent by the orphanages to the government, accessed by TOI, says that they want the children to be shifted from their institutions to places that are deemed fit by the government.

België ziet strenger toe op nieuwe adoptiekanalen met andere landen

Minister van Justitie Koen Geens heeft een protocolakkoord gesloten met de gemeenschappen over interlandelijke adoptie. Dat akkoord moet ervoor zorgen dat er beter wordt samengewerkt. Afgelopen jaar kwam er nog een geval van adoptiefraude aan het licht met adoptiekinderen uit Congo.

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In het protocolakkoord staat dat de federale autoriteit en de autoriteiten van de gemeenschappen beter gaan samenwerken bij interlandelijke adoptie. Ze gaan beter informatie uitwisselen en de procedure wordt transparanter. "Het is heel belangrijk dat bijvoorbeeld de Vlaamse autoriteit, die de kanalen verkent, vóór ze zo'n kanaal opent, met de federale autoriteit overlegt", zegt minister van Justitie Koen Geens. "Want die heeft vaak meer informatie, meer bepaald Buitenlandse Zaken en Justitie, over de toestand in het land en de kansen die er zouden bestaan op misbruik."

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Imphal, December 09 2017: A team of Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), which is a statutory body of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India met Social Welfare and Cooperation Minister Nemcha Kipgen at her Office Chamber at New Secretariat, Imphal today to discuss about effective promotion of legal adoption in Manipur .

The visiting team of CARA include, amongst others, M Ramachandra Reddy, chairman, CARA, Dr Gund-lapally Sreenu, OSD to chair- man, RK Pramodini, member, Adoption Committee, CARA, and Annie Mangsa-tabam, member, Adoption Committee, CARA .

Appreciating the visiting team for highlighting concerns and issues regarding child adoption in Manipur, Nemcha Kipgen said that as a concerned minister as well as the lone woman minister in the cabinet, she deeply felt connected when it comes to the welfare of children and the downtrodden .

She added that children should be in safe hands while assuring the team that she would be do everything she can from her side as well as from that of the Government .

She also urged the team to initiate the opening of the offices in the seven newly created districts in Manipur so that children from every nook and corner will not be deprived of their basic rights .

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Taking note of a large number of abandoned infants who are left in dustbins, in parks or on footpaths by parents unwilling to support them, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has joined hands with a city NGO to raise awareness about safe spots where parents unwilling to bring up their newborn can leave the latter for adoption.

Social workers feel that access to better nodal points will ensure an ailing child is not left prone to infections when abandoned by their parents. In several instances, abandoned newborns are found near railway tracks, at railway stations and near garbage bins by mothers who find it difficult to bring up the child.

Health officials claim such children need proper medical care and may contract infection due to poor immunity.

BMC conducted an awareness drive regarding abandonment of infants for 40 health workers in two health posts and five dispensaries in B ward (Sandhurst Road) last week. “People don’t know what to do when they find an abandoned child. The community needs to be made aware about what to do when they find an abandoned child,” said Dr Vilas Mahokar, medical officer, B Ward.

Health workers were trained to educate people about surrendering a child at NGOs empanelled with government for adoption of children. Health workers have also been given contacts of volunteers who aid in adoption procedures. “Lack of awareness about a safer alternative and easy access to them, are the reasons that deprive the child of a safe passage to rehabilitation through adoption. A lot of children, our volunteers find, are left to die in

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A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, however, allowed the woman the liberty to pursue other remedies in law.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain the writ petition of a woman, claiming to be the biological daughter of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, for a DNA test to ascertain her parentage.

A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, however, allowed the woman, identified as Amrutha and represented by Indira Jaising, the liberty to pursue other remedies in law.