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NRI children: India presses Norway for expediting solution
Wednesday February 01, 2012 06:08:40 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India
Wednesday reiterated its plea to Norway for expediting the process
of handing over children of an NRI couple to their uncle and
underlined the urgent need for the children to be brought up in a
familiar cultural milieu.
M. Ganapathi, secretary (west) in the external affairs ministry,
met a senior Norwegian official here and stressed the need for an
expeditious solution to the case of an NRI couple whose two
children were taken away by the Norwegian Childcare Services on
grounds of "emotional disconnect".
The urgency of the children to be brought up in a familiar milieu
was stressed, external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed
Akbaruddin told reporters here.
Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan also met Norway's
Environment and International Development Minister Eric Solheim
and pressed for an expeditious resolution of the issue, said the
spokesperson.
An agreement was struck between India and Norway last week under
which the parents (Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya) named
Anurup's brother Arunabhash Bhattacharya as the primary caretaker
of the two children, Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1).
The agreement was struck between the Indian government through its
mission in Norway, the municipality concerned of Norway, the
Norwegian Childcare Services, and the parents.
Arunabhash will be in Norway Thursday and meet the Norwegian
authorities to discuss the procedures of taking charge of
children.
The three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya, children
of Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, an NRI couple living in
Stavanger, Norway, were taken under protective care by Barnevarne
(Norwegian Child Welfare Services) in May last year on grounds
that they were not looked after properly by their parents.
Barnevarne had placed them in foster parental care as per the
directive of the local Norwegian court, mandated under Norwegian
laws.
Following appeals for help by parents, India had issued a couple
of strong demarches to Norway and made it clear that the decision
of the Norwegian Childcare Services to separate two children from
their NRI parents was an extreme step and unjustified.
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