180 orphanages want to shut down

With the state insisting on mandatory registration of orphanages under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act by December 15, at least 180 institutions have informed the government that they are not willing to register and are planning to shut down their operations.

The orphanages are citing serious financial crunch and loss of decisionmaking powers with regard to the admission of children, if they are brought under the JJ Act. A couple of such applications sent by the orphanages to the government, accessed by TOI, says that they want the children to be shifted from their institutions to places that are deemed fit by the government.

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