Answer: Ministry of Women and Child Development
Notes: The Ministry of Women and Child Development released the Model Foster Care Guidelines (MFCG), 2024, updating the 2016 guidelines based on various legal frameworks. Foster care involves placing a child with a family other than their biological one, approved by the Child Welfare Committee. The new guidelines extend eligibility to single females and allow them to foster or adopt any gender, while single males can only foster male children. Any individual can foster, regardless of marital status, but married couples must have a stable relationship of 2 years. Foster parents can now adopt a child after fostering for 2 years, instead of 5.
