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CENTRAL ADOPTION RESOURCE AUTHORITY Ministry of Women & Child Development

INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL

West Block 8, Wing 2, 2nd Floor, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066 (India)

Telephone Numbers: +91-11-26180194

E-mail: carahdesk.wcd@nic.in

Toll-Free No: 1800 11 1311

(Available between IST 9:00AM to

5:30PM in all workings days (Mon-Fri)

CENTRAL ADOPTION RESOURCE AUTHORITY Ministry of Women & Child Development

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ACRONYMS

CARA Central Adoption Resource Authority

DCPU District Child Protection Unit

PAPs Prospective Adoptive Parents

CARINGS Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance

System

NOC No Objection Certificate

CWC Child Welfare Committee

HSR Home Study Report

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A. UNDERSTANDING CARINGS

Child Adoption Resource Information & Guidance System (CARINGS) is a web-based

(www.cara.nic.in) online platform, building bridges and creating links through a robust

web-based management system designed to bring transparency in the adoption system as

also curtailing delays at various level.

(CARINGS) offers a more child-centric approach based on the principles of care,

convenience and comfort for the child, parents and the adoption agencies. It is a

monitoring tool for the Government and also an effective mechanism for the service

providers to report to the Government and work for early rehabilitation of orphan and

destitute children. It is designed with the technical support from NIC (National

Informatics Centre) to:

facilitate expeditious and smooth adoption,

ensure transparency in the adoption process,

increase accountability of implementing agencies,

create a network of stakeholders towards improved synergy

maintain a National Database to enable effective policy-making and research.

While CARINGS is being revamped to implement, there are certain important outcomes

of the IT application.

Outcomes

1. Online registration of prospective adoptive parents a(PAPs) in cases of all

adoptions within the country and abroad. The website also enables tracking of

status of their application and viewing of matched child on-line.

2. In cases of in-country adoptions, child study report(CSR), medical examination

report(MER) and child welfare committee(CWC) certificate declaring children

legally free for adoption and home study of the prospective adoptive parents

(PAPs) are uploaded in CARINGS by the specialized adoption agency(SAA)

while PAPs have to upload certain relevant documents online before they are

considered eligible and suitable.

3. Similarly, in cases of inter-country adoptions, central system of receiving

adoption applications from the PAPs residing abroad at CARA to adopt children

from India is something amazing. Now foreign accredited bodies are required to

upload online certain documents of the parents for their eligibility and suitability.

4. Monitoring of progress of the adopted children at least for a period of 2 years.

5. Early placement of mentally and physically challenged children and children

having special needs is a very successful attempt to find family for such children.

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6. Monitoring Module of State Adoption Resource Agency (SARA) and District

Child Protection Unit (DCPU) are intended to address delays during adoption

process. Now we visualize a more active role for all DCPUs to map all adoptable

children within the district so that all such children can be reached and they can

be linked with the local SAA.

7. Relevant information on children and their segregated data and status of waiting

parents can be retrieved online.

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Table of Contents

S.No Topic Page

1 Acronyms 2

2 Understanding CARINGS 3 to 4

3 How to login on CARINGS 6

4 Dashboard 7

5 Administrative 7 to 8

6 Indian Agencies 9 to 10

7 Foreign Agencies

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8 Inter-country 11 to 14

9 NOC 15 to 16

10 Conformity Certificate 16

11 Post Adoption 16

12 Reports/Queries 17 to 18

13 Notices/Circular 19

14 Miscellaneous 19

15 Logout 19

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CARA MODULE

Step-1

Open www.cara.nic.in and click on ‘Agencies’ Tab

Select CARA in ‘User Type’;

Enter ‘User ID’;

Enter ‘Password’ ;

Fill up ‘Captcha Code’ in the space provided and if it’s illegible, then click on

‘Refresh Image’ and enter the new Captcha Code;

Click on ‘Submit’ option to login on CARINGS.

Click here to

Login on

CARINGS

Enter Captcha

image here

Select User Type

from drop down

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Step-2

A consolidated data of all SAAs is available on the Dashboard. It comprises the data of

Total Children Available in Home. A sample of Dashboard is shown below:

Step-3

Click on ‘Administrative’ to monitor the working status of agencies, to track status of

parents, and total number of Special Needs Children (SNC).

3.1) Click on ‘Parents Status Track’ to fetch out the details of an individual parent.

Click here to view the

above mentioned

status’s

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Select State;

Select Agency Type;

Select Agency Code and PAPs registration no.

Subsequently, the status of an individual parent will be available on the screen.

3.2) Click on ‘Sp Needs Children’ to get the details of total number of SNC children

available in different states.

To update Health status and other remarks of children, click on the ‘Agency Code’ of

particular state. Below is the format in which the report will be updated:

Click on ‘View’ Option to see the MER report and Other report;

In order to save the remarks, put a tick mark on ‘Update All’ option;

To end, click on ‘Save’ button.

3.3) Click on ‘NOC Member Registration’ to fill up the registration form of NOC

member

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Step-4

Click on ‘Indian Agencies’ to view the list of agencies waiting for recognition and

password.

4.1) Now, click on ‘Waiting for Recognition’ to view the list of agencies waiting for

recognition. Below is the format in which the reports can be viewed:

4.2) Click on ‘Waiting for Password’ to view the list of agencies which are still waiting

to receive the password.

Select name of the state from drop down.

Click here to select

the state

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4.3) Click on ‘New Registration’ to fill-up the provisional online registration for

agencies.

Step- 5

Click on ‘Foreign Agencies’ to view the list of agencies waiting for authorisation.

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Step-6

Click on ‘Inter-country’

6.1) Click on ‘Parent reg. by OCI/PIO/Foreigner’ to view the list of

NRI/OCI/PIO/Foreigner living in India.

Click here to view

the documents of

parent

Click here to forward

for HSR (Home Study

Report)

Click here to Reject the case

and also, enter reason for

rejection

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6.2) Click on ‘Dossier at CARA’ to view the details of inter-country parents registered by

CARA.

6.3) Click on ‘Parent Registration’ to fill up the registration form.

6.4) Click on ‘Document Checklist’ to check whether all the documents are complete.

Select PAPs registration no.

Mark a tick following to the document;

Enter remarks;

Click on Submit option.

Click here to

select country

Click here to select

case

(Normal/SNC)

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6.5) Click on ‘Dossier Approval’ to give the approval for inter-country adoption of

individual parent.

6.6) Click on ‘Search Parent’ to view the details of an individual parent. Search by

Name, PAPs no., Country, and Agency Code.

Select PAPs

registration no.

Select the name of

Dossier Approval

Committee Head

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6.7) Click on ‘Revert Parent’ to revert back the parent.

Select state from the drop down;

Select agency name;

Click on ‘Show’ option.

6.8) Click on ‘Parent Withdrawal Requests’ to view the list of parents waiting for the

approval.

Choose from the below options ‘Approval/ Not Approval’ in each case.

Click here to

select state

Click here to select

agency name

Click here to

give approval Click here

to reject

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Step-7

Click on ‘NOC’ to view the following options:

7.1) Click on ‘Request by SAA’ to view the details of NOC request by SAA/ Consultant.

7.2) Click on ‘Pending at MC’ to view the details of NOC pending at Member

Committee.

7.3) Click on ‘Cleared by MC’ to view the details of cases cleared by MC for NOC.

7.4) Click on ‘Print NOC’

Click on Next page to view the Terms & Conditions attached to the NOC for the

Placement of the Child mentioned overleaf.

Click here to select

state

Click here to

select agency code

Select NOC no.

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7.5) Click on ‘Cancellation of NOC’ to cancel NOC.

Select year from the drop down;

Select Month;

Select Country;

Click on Show button to view the NOC for cancellation.

Step-8

Click on ‘Conformity Certificate’ to view and issue the conformity certificate.

Step-9

Click on ‘Post Adoption’

9.1) Click on ‘Progress Report’ to view the post adoption reports pending for CARA

verification.

9.2) Click on ‘Pending Reports’ to view the reports of post adoption.

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Step-10

Click on ‘Reports/Queries’ to view the following reports:

10.1) Click on ‘Agency Reports’ to view the reports related to agencies.

10.2) Click on ‘Special Needs Children’ to view the reports related to SNC.

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10.3) Click on ‘Inter-country’ to view reports related to Inter-country, Country/AFAA

wise, State/RIPA wise.

10.4) Click on ‘Parent Reports’ to view the reports of online registered parents.

10.5) Click on ‘NOC Reports’ to view NOC.

Search by Agency wise, State/Country wise, gender, category, Child Health.

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Step-11

Click on ‘Notices/Circular’ to view latest notices issued by CARA.

Step-12

Click on ‘Miscellaneous’ and then ‘Search Child’ to view the details of an individual

child.

Search child by Agency code/Name/Registration no.

Select Agency code from the drop down;

Enter child’s name;

Click on ‘Search’ option to view the details.

Step-13

Click on ‘Log Out’ tab to exit the session.

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