Child trafficking adoption centres warned of action

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, MAY 7. The Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, has said that Government would take stringent action against child adoption centres that indulge in trafficking among infants and strengthen the laws for adoption by childless couples.

Answering questions in the "dial your CM" programme today, the Chief Minister said he was anguished at the pathetic state of affairs of infants, who were abandoned or sold away by poor families, to be traded by unscrupulous persons. Hereafter, adoption by childless couples would be permitted only after it is medically established that the mothers cannot conceive.

Asked by a questioner as to why there was delay in Government detecting the trafficking of children, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu said the day newspapers reported about the raid on Bethany Home in Tandur by Karnataka Police, he asked the Minister for Women's Welfare and the Police to immediately take action. Everyday, he was monitoring the reports in the press, and acting on information provided to him by MLAs or general public. He appealed to couples to follow family planning practices and limit their families to two children only. He appealed to the lambada families to give up their superstitious belief that if the fifth child is a girl, it was a bad omen. He explained that girls are performing much better than boys in schools, and girls would have a better future if they are educated and looked after by their parents.

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