New Delhi: A bill to regulate assisted reproduction like surrogacy and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is likely to be introduced in the winter session of parliament, a senior health ministry official said Monday.

The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2013, has been cleared after rounds of discussions with various ministries and other stakeholders and will be presented before the union cabinet soon, Secretary (Health Research) V.M. Katoch said at a national conference which aims to come up with recommendations for a rights based legal framework on surrogacy in India.