Objective
Action plan
• Preparing a database of adoptable children in all government and non-governmental institutions.
• Preparing the institutionalized children for adoption or foster care placement.
• Organizing adoption awareness programmes in each district and sensitizing all key functionaries and departments.
• Identification of care givers (temporary foster mothers, sponsors) at the panchayat level and declaring them as fit under the Juvenile Justice Act.
• Capacity building for care givers with the help of social work institutions.
• Identification of adoptive parents and preparing them for adoption.
• Online registration and matching of children with prospective adoptive parents and familiarization procedures.
• Placement of children and follow-up action.
• Enlisting all adoptable children in institutions with adoption co-ordination agencies (ACAs) and disseminating the data among all placement agencies.
• Identification of all illegal child care centres and prosecution under the Orphanage and Other Charitable Home (Supervision and Control) Act and Juvenile Justice Act.
• Identification of sponsors at the panchayat level and strengthening at-risk families by providing a support system for the child in need of care and protection.