1,614 children with special needs adopted in last 5 years: Ministry of Women and Child Development

 Smriti Irani, the WCD Minister in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha said that as per the Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System (CARINGS), an online portal of the Central Adoption Resource Authority, 1,614 children with special needs had been placed in-country and inter-country adoptions during the past five years.