Neglected children adopted by foreigners
New Delhi: Over the last two years, foreigners have adopted over 6,000 children from India. That is an annual adoption rate of 3,000 as compared to under 2,000 by Indians. For a country that sees parenthood as the ultimate state of bliss, those are skewed figures. The woman and child development ministry has now asked the Central Adoption Resource Agency — which had issued the existing guidelines on adoption — to revise its guidelines to ensure that more Indians adopt children and there is a mechanism to monitor children adopted by foreigners. The Centre is now planning stringent child adoption laws for foreigners after some MPs raised their concern over the growing number of foreigners adopting Indian children. Why aren’t Indians adopting when roughly 12 million children in country are without parents?
Delhi has largest no. of prostitutes
New Delhi: Delhi had the largest number of sex workers with a minimum of 200 girls spread over 17 kothas. Other states with large numbers of girls were Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Bihar. Despite all the hype by the government about ensuring that children are not part of the sex trade, the brothel owners are quite candid about admitting they had over 245 girls below the age of 16 and another 615 girls between 16-18 years of age. This works out to a minimum of six children per brothel. Bihar had the largest number of girls followed by Maharashtra and UP.
