No Law to Regulate Booming Industry

July 7, 2015

(Times of India) – The surrogacy industry in India is tipped to be 2.3 billion dollars annually with nearly 20,000 such clinics operating across the country. However, there is no law to regulate them. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, which seeks to regulate surrogacy and in-vitro fertilization (IVF), has been pending for the last five years. Experts say only the ‘non-binding’ guidelines from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) regulate the running of fertility clinics.