The Indian Center government pushed through the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Amendment Bill 2021 by voice vote in the Rajya Sabha on 8th December 2021. This bill would help regulate and supervise assisted reproductive clinics in the country.
The ART bill will keep a check on embryo transfer, Vitro fertilization, and sperm banks, another set of infertility-related services and industry mushrooming rapidly in the country. It aims to fill a significant gap in the regulation of reproductive technology in the country.
The fertility clinics and banks will all have to be registered under India's National Registry of Banks and Clinics. This registry would work as a central database for all facilities providing ART.
ART aims to set up a National Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board under Section 15 of the Surrogacy Act. The board will advise the government, monitor, and review the act's implementation, set minimum standards of infrastructure, equipment, clinic, and manpower, lay down code of conduct for employees, and more.
The ART bill will enable any woman above 21 years of age to become a mother. Even widows and divorcees will be able to use ART.
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