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Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA): Role and Status

22 August 20261 min read
NATIONAL AFFAIRSCentral AdoptionResourceAuthority (CARA):Role and Status22 August 2026safalsetu.com

Why in the news

CARA is reviewing the Adoption Regulations, 2022 to cut procedural delays and aid special-needs children.

Key facts

  • Role: nodal authority for adopting orphaned, abandoned and surrendered children.
  • Set up in 1990 as an autonomous body; statutory under Section 68 of the JJ Act, 2015 (amended 2021).
  • Hague role: Central Authority for inter-country adoption; India ratified in 2003.

Exam angle

  • Parent ministry: Women and Child Development.
  • Section: 68 of the JJ Act, 2015.

Test yourself

1. CARA, India's adoption authority, functions under which ministry?

CARA's parent ministry is Women and Child Development.

2. CARA gets statutory status under which section of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015?

Section 68 confers statutory status.

3. India ratified the 1993 Hague Convention on intercountry adoption, which makes CARA its Central Authority, in which year?

India ratified the Convention in 2003.

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