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New Delhi, Oct 9: The central government may soon derecognise 13 orphanages by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity as they are not complying with adoption guidelines. A survey will be conducted by Women and Child Development Ministry to identify child care homes which do not comply with revised guidelines of the Juvenile Justice Act. Women and Child Development Minister, Maneka Gandhi said that orphanages run by Mother Teresa Foundation are also a part of it. (Also Read: Mother Teresa to be canonised in September 2016)
The Union Minister said that the charity itself had written to the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) asking them to derecognise it. As per revised guidelines by Women and Child Development Ministry in July, adoption rules have been made more strict.
The issue came to limelight after the organisation refused to given children for adoption to single, divorced or separated people. As per Hindustan Times Report, Gandhi said, “They have cited ideological issues with our adoption guidelines related to giving a child up for adoption to single, unwed mothers. They have their own agenda and now when they have to come under a unified secular agenda, they are refusing it.”
CARA is an autonomous body under the ministry which regulates adoption of children across international borders. Gandhi also said that the government is trying to convince them to follow guidelines as they are experienced in the field. Gandhi was quoted said, “We are trying and persuading them because they are valuable, good people and have experience. But if they do not follow the central guidelines, we will be left with no option but to derecognise the orphanages run by them and shift the children to other places.”
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