Chetan Chauhan | Hindustan Times | 3 February 2008
With India emerging as a global market for surrogacy, the Women and Child Development Ministry wants the entire business to be regulated through a government agency to uphold interests of a surrogate child.
The ministry’s concept note on “social issues” involving surrogacy seeks a regulatory body backed by a legislation to frame and monitor guidelines on inter-country and intra-country surrogacy. “There should be a law to protect best interests of the child,” the note explained.