Mother abandons "Miracle Baby" since 8-day-old is not an ORPHAN , She can't even be put for ADOPTION....!!!!

RAMPUR: The eight-day-old girl made news when she was born. She was delivered in a train toilet and slipped through to the tracks, but miraculously survived the fall. But now her mother has given up the infant, leaving behind a note simply saying she cannot afford to raise her. And that, in turn, has put authorities at the Shishu Sadan of Rampur, the orphanage that received the baby, in a fix. The child is not an orphan, they said, because of which she cannot be given up for adoption. Her mother, meanwhile, has gone missing.

Authorities said the infant was born on December 28, in a train passing through Bareilly. After the child slipped through the toilet onto the tracks, her mother raised a hue and cry and the train was brought to a halt as fellow passengers pulled the chain. The little girl was rescued and taken to the Bareilly district hospital, where the mother told doctors and officials of the Child Welfare Committee that she was in no position to raise her baby. The mother, after leaving her infant with the orphanage, then disappeared.

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Under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000, the child cannot be termed an orphan as her mother is still alive. The orphanage, under the law, must upload data about children on the website of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), an autonomous body under the Union ministry of women and child development.

Sunil Sharma, member of the Child Welfare Committee, said, "Documents from the NGO in Bareilly that were received by the orphanage said the mother could not raise the child. What that means is that the child has been surrendered. The mother has since disappeared, but we know this child is not an orphan."

Sharma explained that for the infant to be put up for adoption, the mother would now need to sign a "surrender deed" with the Child Welfare Committee. Only then could the legal adoption process begin.

Superintendent HP Srivastav of the Government Children's Home, told TOI, "The infant was brought here by members of the Child Welfare Committee of Bareilly and officers of the GRP (Government Railway Police). The paediatrician has checked her and found her healthy. She will soon be vaccinated."

Srivastav added that he has asked for the mother of the baby to be produced. If she cannot be found, the adoption process will have to wait until the mother is declared a "disappeared" person. Meanwhile, staff at the orphanage, which presently serves as home to 28 little ones, have named the infant girl Vandana