Mission

  • Campaigning the importance of birth registration to general public in India by collaborating with the NGO’s working on child protection
  • Strengthening the civil registration system by collaborating at various administrative levels to increase the number of birth registration
  • Propagating poor birth registration practices as a global threat and advocating appropriate measures to protect child rights
  • To Invoke Age Assessment related research in India by establishing collaboration with medical and dental schools and to record dental development in  Indian children
  • Establish collaboration with nationwide professional organizations including the Indian Dental Association and Indian Medical Association to dissipate research findings
  • Publish research articles on the findings of this research to gain acceptance within the scientific community in the International arena
  • Propose an established method of age Assessment to the Ministry of Health and Family welfare to estimate the age of more than 150 million children in India without birth certificate
  • Integrate estimated age with the Unique Identification Number (UID) scheme which has been established under the name ‘Aadhaar’ by the Planning Commission, Government of India
  • To collaborate with the Ministry of Law and Justice to incorporate the method of age assessment to clear the pending cases on birth date disputes in the Indian courts
  • Provide certificate, diploma and other training courses to dentists and other age assessment practitioners including medical doctors and forensic pathologists to conduct scientifically accepted age assessments
  • Propose to the “Dental Council of India” and “Medical Council of India” to include Forensic Dentistry in the undergraduate teaching curriculum and to include Age Assessment as a module within this subject
  • To emphasize the need for a “Universal Protocol” for age assessment because of the discrepancies in age assessment practices across the world including the European Union, United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia
  • Propose universal consensus on age assessment practices to the world organizations including the concerned governmental organizations and to the United Nations (UNICEF and UNHCR)
  • Collaborate with World Climate Change Council (WCCC) for the recognition of climate change refugees in International law and assist with age assessments