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Dimapur, May 18 (EMN): The Ministry of Women and Child Development on Wednesday stated that there are 474 Specialised Adoption Agency (SAA) in the country, including four in Nagaland.
The Ministry in its Central Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System (Carings) portal revealed that among the Northeast states, Assam has the highest number of SSA with 20, Arunachal Pradesh has two, Manipur has nine, and Meghalaya has six, Mizoram has seven, Sikkim has three and Tripura has nine.
Maharashtra has the highest SSA in the country with 56 followed by Rajasthan with 35, and Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa with33 each. Himachal Pradesh has the least number of SAA in the country with just one SSA and 19 children.
As per the report, in the state-wise number of children in Specialised Adoption Agency, Maharashtra has the highest number of children with 1172 children in the 56 SAA, followed by Tamil Nadu which has 471 children in the 23 SAA, and Madhya Pradesh with 465 children in 33 SAA.
In the northeast region, Assam has 137 children in the 20 SSA, Tripura has 57, Arunachal Pradesh has seven children, Manipur has 62 children -- the second highest in the region, Meghalaya has ten children, Nagaland has six, Sikkim has 13 and Tripura has 57 -- the third highest.
The year 2020-21 saw the lowest number of in-country adoption of children with 2862, while the highest was in the 2014-2015 with 3374 adoptions.
In the number of inter-country adoption, 2018-19 saw the highest number of adoptions at 698 while the lowest was in 2014-15 with 338.