Clarification of registration numbers and Bal Mandir

There has been some confusion about numbers and Bal Mandir circulating around the Nepal yahoo groups. This is the latest information from our attorney in Nepal regarding those issues.



I have asked Manoj regarding Bal Mandir and the registration number.

Bal Mandir is also known as the Nepal Children Organization and it is the one of the oldest orphanage in Nepal. Bal Mandir has its own status due to its old age and number of children they take care. NO dossiers can be submitted to Bal Mandir. The new law demands the files to be submitted at the Ministry. The $300 fee that we pay has to in the name of the Ministry along with the families dossier. ALL dossiers are submitted to the Ministry NOT Bal Mandir.

There are 2 matching committees. Once is called CCWB, Central Child Welfar Board and the other is Bal Mandir.

CCWB receives children from 37 orphanages while Bal Mandir has their own list of children. Both committees have to send the list of their children available for adoption to the ministry.

The dossier submitted can be forwarded to any of the committees, either CCWB or Bal Mandir.

Regarding the registration number. When the file is submitted to the ministry, it goes to the registration desk which the registration numbers are issued. Any document that enters the Ministry will have to be registered at the front desk. Then the files are forward to the legal section in it’s in a “queue” since it’s in a first come first serve base. The number Manoj gave is your queue number in legal section. The 4 digits are registration number is issued at the desk when the first enter Ministry, so the families don’t really need this number. Only the queue as this is the number in line.

Please know that we would never withhold any information from our families.