• ●Central Adoption Resource Authority: set up June 1990, made a statutory body by Section 68 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015; HQ New Delhi; nodal ministry is Women and Child Development.
• ●CARA is India's designated Central Authority for inter-country adoption under the Hague Adoption Convention, 1993, which India ratified in 2003.
• ●CARINGS (Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System) is CARA's online portal, operational since 2011, and the only lawful route for registering prospective adoptive parents.
• ●Workshop held at the Delhi Secretariat with Delhi's Department of Women and Child Development and the Delhi State Adoption Resource Agency; about 200 participants; a fiction film on legal adoption was launched.
• ●Theme of National Adoption Awareness Month 2026: 'Legal Adoption. Safe Childhood. Secure Future. Say No to Illegal Adoption.'
• ●Child Welfare Committee: constituted for every district by the State Government under Section 27 of the JJ Act, 2015, with a chairperson and four members, at least one of them a woman.
• ●The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 covers Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs; the JJ Act, 2015 route is secular and open to all, while the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 confers only guardianship.
• ●Mission Vatsalya is the Women and Child Development Ministry's umbrella child-protection scheme from 2021-22, funded 60:40 between Centre and States (90:10 for North-Eastern and Himalayan States).

The Central Adoption Resource Authority acts as India's Central Authority for inter-country adoption under which international instrument?