(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: Retuning Adoption Policy

Topic: Retuning Adoption Policy

Guest:

Enakshi Ganguly, (Child Rights Activist)
Shankar Agrawal, (Former Secretary, Ministry of Women & Child Development)
Shilpi Jain, (Advocate, Supreme Court)
Nitin Mohan Sharma, (Adoptive Parent)

Topic Description:

An inter-ministerial panel headed by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has cleared a proposal making district magistrates the final authority to clear child adoption cases, in a bid to quicken a process that is often hit by year-long delays, according to a report in the Hindustan Times. At present, prospective adoptive parents have to go to civil or family courts to get the final go-ahead after completing all other formalities related to adoption. But with pendency high in civil and family courts, the report says that it is not easy to get a date for hearing. On this edition of ‘The Big Picture’ we analyse how the retuning of the adoption policy will impact the process of adoption.