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Our Correspondent

Mullanpur Dakha, May 5

The SGB Home, a body that takes care of abandoned children, at Dham Talwandi Khurd, near here, has adopted a girl child abandoned by her parents at Gill village, near Ludhiana.

The newborn was found abandoned in the fields on the outskirts of the village in the morning of April 30 by Tej Kaur.

The baby was around six months old. Tej Kaur, on hearing the cries of the baby, found her draped in white clothes.

She brought the matter to the notice of village sarpanch Avtar Singh, who further informed the in-charge of the Marado police post under the Ludhiana Sadar police station.

The local police, after getting the child medically examined, registered a DDR. As the parents of the child could not be traced, the police informed Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Rahul Tewari.

Ludhiana district social security officer Inderpreet Kaur acting on the orders of the director, social security department (women and children), Punjab, and Tewari handed over the baby to the Swami Ganganandji Bhuriwale (SGB) International Foundation of Dham Talwandi Khurd, a nodal agency for adoption of child approved by Punjab and Central government.

Jasbir Kaur, the president of the NGO along with its secretary Kuldeep Singh, principal Ramanjot Kaur and Surinder Kaur took the possession of the child.

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