Central Adoption Resource Authority(CARA)

● It is a statutory body of the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India.  

● It functions as the nodal body for adoption of Indian children and is mandated to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions.  

● It is designated as the Central Authority to deal with inter-country adoptions in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, 1993, ratified by the Government of India in 2003.  

 

Hague Convention 

● It is a multilateral treaty developed by the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) to provide an expeditious method to return a child internationally abducted by a parent from one member country to another. 

● The Convention applies to children aged under 16 years.As of July 2019,101 states are party to the convention.