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Secretary, WCD, Shri Indevar Pandey's visit to CARA office on 12 sept 2023
Hindi Pakhwada
Society of Friends of Sassoon Hospitals Agency, Special needs CCI-TARA, Maharshi Karwe CCI (for girls) Pune
Three days Induction Training of SARA & DCPU of Jammu and Kashmir from 16/10/23 to 18/10/23 on Adoption Regulation’22 & CARINGS at CARA, New Delhi and CWC Kalkaji
Swachhta pakhwada
State Orientation Programme on Adoption Regulations 2022 with State Adoption Resource Agencies (SARAs) on 2nd September 2022
Three Days Residential training Workshop for social workers at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh conducted at NIPCCD Lucknow from 20th January to 22nd January, 2020
Adoptive Parents & Prospective Adoptive Parents held on 18th January, 2020 at Kolkata, West Bengal.
National Consultative Workshop on Child Adoption on 14th January, 2020 in Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Auditorium, Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi
Regional Level Training cum Workshops to stop the menace of Illegal Adoptions being organised by The Government of Punjab for the districts of Bathinda, Ferozepur, Faridkot, Fazilka, Sri Muktsar Sahib, Mansa on 20th December, 2019.
Three Days Residential Training Workshop for Social Workers of Gujarat at Ahmedabad from 18th to 20th December, 2019.
Visit of Students from University School of Law, Gujarat University to CARA. A lecture was provided on the working of CARA, JJ Act 2015 and Adoption Regulations 2017 on 18th December, 2019.
Regional Level Training cum Workshops to Stop the Menace of Illegal Adoptions, Conducted by SARA Punjab at Patiala for Sangrur, Patiala, SAS Nagar,Fatehgarh Sahib, Barnala held on 16th December, 2019
Workshop on JJ Act 2015 and Adoption Regulations 2017 for CWC Members, Welfare Officers of Govt. run CCIs and DCPU Staff of West Delhi
Workshop on laws of Adoption on the topics: Adoption as per Central Adoption Resource Authority(CARA), Adoption as per State Adoption Resource Agency(SARA), Adoption under Customary Laws held on 26th November, 2019 at Sokeythang, Sikkim.
As part of the Hausla 2019 (Annual Event of Ministry of Women and Child Development), CARA Organised a Painting Competition on 19th December 2019 at National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development, New Delhi
Regional Awareness Meet with Adoptive & Prospective Adoptive Parents and other Stakeholders held on 14th November, 2019 at Chandigarh
Adoption Seminar & Adoptive Families' Meet held on 9th November, 2019 at Constitution Club of India, New Delhi.
Three Days Residential Training Workshop for Social Workers at Bhubaneshwar, Odisha for the Social Workers of Odisha and Jharkhand from 31st October to 2nd November, 2019
"Review of Adoption Programme in Delhi State and Way forward" at Dr Ambedkar International Center, Janpath, New Delhi on 21 October 2019. The Review Meet was attended by Shri Deepak Kumar, Member Secretary and CEO CARA, Shri Madhup Vyas, Secretary, SW & WCD, Government of NCT of Delhi, Shri Sanjay Barshilia, Director CARA and Dr Jagannath Pati, Joint Director CARA.
Demonstration of CARINGS for CARA Staff, held on 3rd October, 2019
Three Days Residential Training Workshop for Social Workers of Bihar, held at Patna from 23rd to 25th September 2019
Workshop on the JJ Act, 2015 and Adoption Regulation Act, 2017 for CWC Members, Welfare Officers of Govt. run CCIs and DCPU staff of West Delhi on 30th August, 2019
Workshop on Regulatory & Reformatory Actions Taken by CARA & Adoption Regulation 2017 at JIMS Engineering Management Technical Campus, School of Law, (Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Dwarka, New Delhi) Greater Noida on 27th August, 2019
Central Adoption Resource Authority, Ministry of Women and Child Development conducting session on Legally free for Adoption- a process to be followed restoration and track the missing child, follow up: Adoption Regulations 2017 and Function of Child Welfare Committee during Organization of Refresher Training for Child Welfare Committee in Maharashtra from 19-22 August, 2019 at Pune, Maharashtra.
Students visited from Delhi Metropolitan College of Law, Indraprastha University visited CARA and were provided a Sensitization Workshop regarding Role and Responsibilities of CARA and Adoption rules and Regulations on 21st August, 2019.
Three Days Residential Training Workshop for Social Workers of West Bengal and Sikkim held at Kolkata from 7th August 2019 to 9th August 2019
Three Days Residential Training Workshop for Social Workers of Kerala held at Thiruvananthapuram from 17, July 2019 to 19 July 2019
Three Days Residential Training Workshop for Social Workers of Karnataka held at Bengaluru from 10th July 2019 to 12th July 2019
5th International Yoga Day celebrated on 21st June 2019 at the various Specialised Adoption Agencies and Child Care institutions across the country.
One Day State Level Orientation Programme held at Jaipur, Rajasthan on 11th June 2019.
Three Days Residential Training Workshop for Social Workers of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana held at Bapatla Guntur from 10th June-12th June 2019.
One day State level Orientation Programme at Bhubaneswar, Odisha held on 4th June 2019.
One Day Hands-on Training Programme on CARINGS and Adoption Regulations 2017 held in Imphal, Manipur on 18th May 2019
Three Days Residential Training Workshope for Social Workers of Chhattisgarh held at Raipur from 26th April 2019 to 28th April 2019.
3 Days Residential Training Workshope for Social Workers, 14th to 16 March, 2019, National bal bhavan, Kotla road, New Delhi
One Day capacity building programme for Adoption Regulations-2017, and Puducherry Child Protection Society 23rd January 2019
Training on Adoption Regulation 2017 and CARINGS portal held at Haryana on 18th January 2019
4th Annual Day Meet of CARA on 15th January 2019 at the Indian International Center, New Delhi
One day workshop on Adoption for stakeholders of Belagavi District, Karnataka on 4th January 2019
State Orientation Programme on Adoption related issues in West Bengal held on 4th Jan 2019 at Siliguri
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