The existing law is silent about the formal education for the inmates of Orphanages which is a fundamental right of every child as per article 25 A of Constitution of Pakistan which is also reaffirmed in the Sindh Right of Children to Free And Compulsory Education Act 2013. The existing Act requires an adequate and clear admission and proper discharge mechanism of the orphans from orphanages, hence the proposed amendments in section 21 of the Act specially as per court order no adoption shall place without magistrate approval. The female inmates must consent to their discharge from orphanages in the event they consensually and wishfully want to move onto a lawful marriage, therefore the amendments in section 21 are proposed. Moreover, proposed amendment in section 21 also suggests obligatory registration of missing or abandoned children with NADRA and this registration is of prime importance.
In the proposed amendment in section 9 financial aid from Board can only be availed by those orphanages that regularly submit their annual financial account. Similarly orphanages are obligated to submit to the Board, their audited reports of every quarter of every financial year and the Secretary Social Welfare Department will work as the Principal Accounting Officer of the Board, proposed in section 11 of the Act.
