CENTRAL ADOPTION RESOURCE AUTHORITY (CARA)

About:

• Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is the nodal body for adoption of Indian children. CARA primarily deals with adoption of orphan, abandoned and surrendered children through its associated /recognised adoption agencies.
  
  
• It regulates in-country and inter-country adoptions (in accordance with the provisions of The Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption, 1993, ratified by Government of India in 2003).
  
  
• Status:  It is an autonomous and a statutory body of the Union Women and Child Development Ministry.
  
  
• The mandatory registration of CCIs and linking to CARA has been provided in Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
  
  
• It was set up in 1990.
  
  
• In 2018, CARA has allowed individuals in a live-in relationship to adopt children from and within India.
  
  
• HQ: New Delhi.