New Adoption Rules Puts NRIs On Par With Indians

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NEW DELHI – Five years after they submitted documents for adopting a child in India, Devi and Joseph will finally get to see their six-year-old ‘daughter’ when the non-resident Indian couple settled in Dallas in the United States comes to Delhi next month to take her home.

It has been a long wait filled with home studies, delays and court procedures. “The adoption agency in Delhi has been regularly sending us pictures of Siara, but we feel we have missed out a good part of her childhood,” said Joseph, 43, who hails from Bangalore and works as software analyst in the US. “At one point, we had decided to adopt a child from China or Ethiopia, where the delay is much less, but my wife was insistent our child should at least look like us,” said Joseph, speaking over the phone. Indian expatriates hoping to adopt a child from their home country may soon have to submit to a much less gruelling experience than Devi and Joseph.

NRI couples could be treated on a par with their resident Indian counterparts following changes being made to adoption rules by the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare. As a result, NRI couples could have equal opportunities for adopting a child in India. This will spell a major change from the existing rules, under which the first preference is given to India-based couples.

Maneka Gandhi, whose ministry is working towards finetuning the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act with an entire chapter on adoption for the first time, has already written to adoption agencies in states, child welfare committee heads and judges not to delay the processing of adoption applications.

A few years ago adoption agencies were asked to stick to a ratio of 80:20, with only a fifth of the eligible children for adoption abroad, in a move introduced to curb overseas child trafficking in the garb of adoption. This led to a fall in overseas adoptions from 628 in 2010-11 to 430 in 2013-2014.

“What the NRIs get is often the `rejects’ of the Indian parents. NRIs insist on having fair-skinned, healthy children less than one year of age but such children are to be first picked by couples here,” said a senior official at Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), the body that handles and monitors adoptions in India.

The official, who did not wish to be identified, added, “The NRIs, even after waiting for many months, are left to choose from children with medical issues, which is why they choose to go to other countries or give up on the process.”

In the past ten years, over 8,000 NRI couples have applied for Indian children but only a few have been shortlisted. “We screen the NRI couples many times to keep the number very small because we know due to the existing rules we don’t have many children to list for adoption. We will expand the list once the new rules are notified,” the official said.

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Mind should have a harmonious control over organs of perception and action.  Detachment through self-restrains brings happiness.  Penance is to keep your mind calm, cool, collected and controlled, and devoid of jealousy, anger and apathy.  Let there be no harsh words in your speech, no vanity in your mind, no conscious sinful acts by your deeds and thoughts and no backbiting echoes in your heart.  Control your mind to reach your destination; don’t let your mind be a slave to your desires.  Continence of mind opens the gates for inner peace by curbing ego and illumination of the self for an everlasting bliss.

From the Vedic point of view, the only way peace can be called real is, if the essential needs of all individuals, families, and societies have been met, live fear less, and have love and respect for all in their day to day life.  This state of peace should then be similar to a mother loving her children.  Personal peace is dependent on the peace existent in the family

One of the main reasons for the wars is human ego.  Vedas tell us to be human, full of qualities.

Those who perceive the same Supreme Being in everyone’s heart, and dwell on positivity and commonness rather than differences are not jealous.  They also see that all souls are essentially children of the same god.  They see unity, and are neither attached nor unhappy.  Vedas tell us that everyone has equal rights to use all products derived from nature, such as air, water, etc.   This basically includes everything we ever use in life.  Contrary to these actions, bad conducts, selfishness, lust, ignorance, and not following the rules of nature will lead to unhappiness.  We should not misuse any natural material.

I have tried to summarize the main gist of all Vedic topics and knowledge as discussed during the Mahasammlas in short.

Om Santih santih santih.  May there be peace, peace, peace!