the bill will allow a juvenile justice board, which would include psychologists and sociologists, to decide whether a juvenile criminal in the age group of 16–18 should be tried as an adult or not. the bill introduced concepts from the hague convention on protection of children and cooperation in respect of inter-country adoption, 1993 which were missing in the previous act. the bill also seeks to make the adoption process of orphaned, abandoned and surrendered children more streamlined.