Pakhi Kumari was 2 years old and abandoned by her parents. She was raised at the Specialised Adoption Institute in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar, as per The New Indian Express.?
A childless couple from West Bengal, Reena and Sudipta Pal, adopted her on June 10.?
Then a childless couple from USA went to Madhubani to adopt a 2-year-old abandoned girl, Kavya.?
They did so in front of a magistrate.
The trend that is visible is that more girls are being preferred over boys.?
This shows a sign of a change in mindset.
¡°Counseling has also made an impact. Prospective parents are registering with choices for kids for adoption on the CERA portal and coming ahead for adopting from Bihar¡¯s various adoption centres,¡± said Raj Kumar, who is the Director of Social Welfare Department.?
The social welfare department's figures showed that 210 abandoned children, of which 148 were female, were adopted in 2018-19.?
71 of them were adopted by Bihar couples in the country and 39 by those living overseas.?
In 2019-20, 120 kids were adopted and 82 of them were female.