Section 34 (3) of the JJ Act provides for mandatory registration of all
Child Care Institutions (CCIs) housing children in need of care and
protection with the intent of enforcing minimum standards of care, under
the Act and Rules there-under, for the services provided for children
in these Homes. The JJ Act and Central Model Rules there-under provide
for mechanisms for stringent monitoring of quality of services in all
child care Homes through Inspection Committees set up by the State
Government at State, district and city levels and Child Welfare
Committees (CWCs).
Once the child is produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), the
responsibility of conducting an inquiry and thereafter declaring the
said child to be legally free for adoption so as to prevent any case of
trafficking, is that of the concerned CWC.
As per the information received from CARA, they have not come across any
complaint of child trafficking in the guise of adoption during the last
three years and the current year.
This was stated by Smt. Krishna Tirath, Minister for Women and Child Development, in a written reply to the Lok Sabha today.
