Centre soon to launch portal to track child adoption status for NRIs

NewsBharati    23-Oct-2017
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New Delhi, October 23: The central adoption body CARA is planning to set up a portal to help prospective parents from outside India track the status of their applications instead of relying solely on their country's authorised agency.

"The online module will give such parents direct access to information which until now they could not get on their own. Parents often get anxious when an authorised foreign adoption agency fails to update them on important information and we are trying to bridge that gap," said CARA CEO Lt Col Deepak Kumar.

"We will be able to ensure greater transparency and provide better services to parents who often complain about how the agency they are dealing with is clueless on the status of their application and is not able to provide information on time. We will also have fewer grievances," Kumar said.

The move to provide an information window to foreign applicants follows requests from both AFAA and prospective parents during a recent interaction with the CARA CEO on Facebook.

Once it is ready, the new portal will allow parents to access information after they register with an authorised foreign adoption agency (AFAA) or central authority (CA). As per the CARA website, in 2016-2017 there were a total 578 inter-country adoptions and 3,210 domestic adoptions.