The Big Picture - Retuning Adoption Policy

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. Guests: Enakshi Ganguly, Child Rights Activist, Shankar Agrawal, Former Secretary, Ministry of Women & Child Development, Shilpi Jain, Advocate, Supreme Court, Nitin Mohan Sharma, Adoptive Parent Anchor: Frank Rausan Pereira