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A specialised adoption agency in Patna.(Santosh Kumar / Hindustan Times)

Months after their adoption process was okayed at the level of adoption agencies, over a hundred children in Bihar are still waiting to be transferred to their foster homes, thanks to a legal technicality that should have already been addressed long ago.

Such children are unable to unite and settle down with their foster families, based in other states in the country or in other countries because the mandatory ‘legal clearance’ for their inter-state and inter-country adoption is pending in family courts in different districts.

Figures from State Adoption Resource Agency (SARA) revealed at least 102 inter-state adoptions, approved at the level of state adoption agencies, were pending with family courts in seven towns of Bihar, namely, Patna (41), Saharsa (18), Gaya (16), Bhagalpur (14), Darbhanga (12) and Saran (1).

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Farmer Budu Kandir with his daughter Sarita (right) and Mangra at a Ranchi hospital on Saturday. (Prashant Mitra)

Ranchi: For a month-and-a-half, a Khunti farmer is chasing authorities to get back his 18-month-old son who went missing after 22 babies were shifted from a Missionaries of Charity-run shelter in the wake of a baby-sale-for-adoption controversy that rocked the state capital in July.

After the adoption racket came to light at Ranchi's Nirmal Hriday, the state child welfare committee ordered the shifting of all babies from Shishu Bhavan. Of 22 babies there, 12 were shifted to Khunti's Sahyog Village, a child care shelter run by an NGO.

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Abandoned children are being sent to other districts

In the absence of adoption agency in Tiruchi, abandoned children are being sent to other districts where organisations comply with CARA (Central Adoption Resource Authority) guidelines.

According to official sources, the necessity to send children to other districts has arisen since the SOC-SEAD has not renewed its licence that had lapsed during 2016.

No other agency has come forward for adopting children, District Child Protection Officer Geetha said. SOC-SEAD sources said that they have fulfilled all norms but are yet to be granted the licence.

The Adoption Guidelines 2017 framed by CARA envisages increase in time period available to domestic Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAP) for matching and acceptance, after reserving the child referred, from 20 days to 15 days.

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Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi.

Every MP and MLA in the country should visit shelter homes in their constituencies once every fortnight to prevent incidents like the horrific mass rape in Bihar's Muzaffarpur, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi said on Saturday.

"I have written to every MP in the last four years saying that all 9,000 of the children's homes in the country have to be checked every two weeks because things happen to the defenceless," said the Union minister, while speaking at the Mail Today Femail Summit, 2018.

"I gave each a list of all the children's homes in their respective areas. Not a single MP has taken it up," she added, responding to a question about the alleged rape, abuse and torture of the girls by the politically connected owner of the shelter home in Muzaffarpur.

Child abuse at madrassa: Victims finally meet their parents with the help of district collector and NGOs

The parents of the victims, who were staying put in Pune for the past one month, were struggling to get united with their children who were kept in the custody of the child welfare committee (CWC). However, with the intervention of Pune district collector Naval Kishore Ram and parents’ firm stand to take back their children, won the latter their fight and the issue was resolved.

PUNE Updated: Aug 30, 2018 16:25 IST

Nozia Sayyed

Hindustan Times, Pune

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Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) are homes established by the government to house abandoned, surrendered and missing children in the 0-6 age group.(Representative image)

Trapped in a world of silence, some children living in Bihar’s Specialised Adoption Agencies don’t speak at all because they have no one to talk to, reveals a TISS report that details instances of hunger, isolation and verbal abuse at the state-run institutions.

Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) are homes established by the government to house abandoned, surrendered and missing children in the 0-6 age group.

In its audit of 21 SAAs in 20 Bihar districts, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences found some children as old as three years were not speaking at all because there was no trained staff and also because they had no one to speak to. These institutions have 70% girls.

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The homes inspected were in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, West Bengal, Punjab, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. (File photo)

An inspection of 15 specialised adoption agencies (SAAs) by the ministry of women and child development (WCD) and the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), carried out in January and February, has discovered glaring irregularities, including premature deaths, unhygienic conditions, and even children not being accounted for in some cases.

SAAs house orphaned and abandoned children below the age of six meant for adoption. There are 460 of them around India. The homes inspected were in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, West Bengal, Punjab, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Under the Juvenile Justice Act (JJ?Act), SAAs, which are run by private agencies or NGOs in most cases, have to be registered with the government’s Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System (CARINGS) for intra- and inter-country adoptions and provide details of each child admitted to the agency. The portal is run by CARA, the government’s nodal agency monitoring adoption in the country.

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