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Ministry of Women and Child Development

Orphaned and Abandoned Children Outside Institutionalised Care

Posted On: 18 JUL 2019 4:40PM by PIB Delhi

The primary responsibility of execution of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (JJ Act) lies with the State Governments. Details of Child Care Institutions in the country along with number of Children residing in these institutions under Child Protection Services (CPS) is at Annexure-I.

However, as per information provided by Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), 5940 Child Care Institutions (CCIs) have been entered on Child Adoption Resource Information & Guidance System (CARINGS) by the respective State & UTs out of which 5364 CCIs have been linked to Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) as on 15^th July, 2019. Number of children in need of care protection reported on the CARINGS portal, State/UT-wise is at Annexure-II.

As per the report submitted by the States / UTs on 18.09.2018, 4849 Institutions were inspected and 539 Institutions were closed on account of non-compliance of provisions of JJ Act as found by inspection committees during inspections. States/UTs have informed that as on 08.01.2019, there are 7909 Institutions registered under JJ Act, 2015. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued advisories from time to time to States/UTs to register all Government and Non-Government Organization (NGO) run CCIs under Sub-section (1) of Section (41) of JJ Act by 31^st December, 2017. A letter was sent to all the States/UTs to initiate steps to close down those Institutions which have declined to register. The details of all the registered CCIs in the country, State/UT-wise as provided by States/UTs as on 8.01.2019 is at Annexure-III.

Annexure-I

Details of Child Care Institutions in the country along with number of Children residing in these institutions under CPS as on 31.03.2019.

S. No.	State/UTs	Institutional Care [Homes]		Open Shelters		Specialised Adoption Agencies
S. No.	State/UTs	No. Assisted	Beneficiaries	No. Assisted	Beneficiaries	No. Assisted	Beneficiaries
1	Andhra Pradesh	66	2316	13	342	14	144
2	Arunachal Pradesh	4	76	0	0	1	9
3	Assam	37	1765	3	51	23	69
4	Bihar	26	1567	5	134	13	138
5	Chhattisgarh	65	2325	10	117	12	120
6	Goa	23	1188	3	378	2	16
7	Gujarat	45	1706	0	0	12	86
8	Haryana	24	1403	21	614	7	47
9	Himachal Pradesh	33	1227	3	38	1	11
10	Jammu and Kashmir	17	823	0	0	2	0
11	Jharkhand	36	992	5	141	15	93
12	Karnataka	80	2998	40	1153	25	107
13	Kerala	30	788	4	100	12	65
14	Madhya Pradesh	67	2804	8	348	26	243
15	Maharashtra	67	2605	3	86	13	136
16	Manipur	42	1160	14	296	7	55
17	Meghalaya	44	960	3	159	3	6
18	Mizoram	36	1195	0	0	5	50
19	Nagaland	39	477	3	35	4	5
20	Odisha	96	6859	12	244	23	223
21	Punjab	13	463	0	0	0	0
22	Rajasthan	85	2459	22	401	24	99
23	Sikkim	12	355	3	60	4	20
24	Tamil Nadu	189	11915	12	264	20	169
25	Tripura	23	717	2	58	6	49
26	Uttar Pradesh	77	3162	20	500	12	120
27	Uttarakhand	20	437	2	50	2	15
28	West Bengal	73	5436	49	1326	32	460
29	Telangana	42	1343	0	0	11	342
30	Andaman & Nicobar	3	101	-	0	-	0
31	Chandigarh	7	252	0	0	2	17
32	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	-	0	-	0	-	0
33	Daman and Diu	0	0	-	0	-	0
34	Lakshadweep	-	0	-	0	-	0
35	Delhi	28	1447	13	380	3	72
36	Puducherry	27	1043	2	42	2	16
	Total	1476	64364	275	7317	338	3002

Annexure-II

Number of Children in Institutional Care in Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs), as per the details entered on CARINGS, as on 16/07/2019
S. No.	State/UT	Orphan	Abandoned	Surrendered	Having Family & Requiring Institutitional Care	Total
1	Andaman and Nicobar Island	13	0	1	11	25
2	Andhra Pradesh	279	191	51	79	600
3	Arunachal Pradesh	0	2	4	0	6
4	Assam	32	108	40	10	190
5	Bihar	27	230	5	6	268
6	Chandigarh	2	12	20	12	46
7	Chhattisgarh	52	98	49	25	224
8	Dadar and Nagar Haveli	0	1	0	0	1
9	Delhi	36	228	33	23	320
10	Goa	1	6	15	2	24
11	Gujarat	6	60	40	8	114
12	Haryana	47	121	46	4	218
13	Himachal Pradesh	0	5	2	2	9
14	Jharkhand	16	75	255	18	364
15	Karnataka	31	135	152	54	372
16	Kerala	1	38	52	1	92
17	Madhya Pradesh	271	188	104	52	615
18	Maharashtra	87	443	379	59	968
19	Manipur	21	5	24	6	56
20	Meghalaya	0	1	13	0	14
21	Mizoram	0	3	10	6	19
22	Nagaland	2	0	4	0	6
23	Orissa	77	208	145	34	464
24	Pondicherry	0	5	10	0	15
25	Punjab	10	220	25	69	324
26	Rajasthan	17	114	23	19	173
27	Sikkim	0	0	7	0	7
28	Tamil Nadu	37	104	111	1	253
29	Telangana	15	138	261	26	440
30	Tripura	9	25	10	13	57
31	Uttar Pradesh	73	259	57	21	410
32	Uttarakhand	2	9	0	0	11
33	West Bengal	38	277	35	19	369
	TOTAL	1202	3309	1983	580	7074
SOURCE : CARINGS

Annexure-III

The details of all the registered CCIs working in the country, State/UT-wise as provided by States/UTs on 8.01.2019.

S. No.	States/UTs		No of Registered CCIs
1.	Andaman and Nicobar Island	0
2.	Andhra Pradesh	779
3.	Arunachal Pradesh	11
4.	Assam	122
5.	Bihar	83
6.	Chandigarh	10
7.	Chhattisgarh	81
8.	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	2
9.	Daman & Diu	0
10.	Delhi	50
11.	Goa	80
12.	Gujarat	121
13.	Haryana	81
14.	Himachal Pradesh	47
15.	Jammu & Kashmir	70
16.	Jharkhand	120
17.	Karnataka	1134
18.	Kerala	817
19.	Lakshadweep	0
20.	Madhya Pradesh	117
21.	Maharashtra	908
22.	Manipur	126
23.	Meghalaya	99
24.	Mizoram	52
25.	Nagaland	68
26.	Odisha	270
27.	Puducherry	63
28.	Punjab	61
29.	Rajasthan	240
30.	Sikkim	28
31.	Tamil Nadu	1263
32.	Telangana	465
33.	Tripura	30
34.	Uttar Pradesh	207
35.	Uttarakhand	41
36.	West Bengal	263
	Total	7909

This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, SmritiZubinIrani, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

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