Adraft law that aims to make surrogacy legal and transparent was cleared by the Cabinet yesterday. The Surrogacy Bill, 2016, has been drafted with the aim to protect the rights of both, the surrogate and the child. The government will take up the Bill at the Winter Session.

It proposes to ban commercial surrogacy and clarifies that only Indian couples with proven infertility can take the help of surrogate mothers. It makes it illegal for foreign nationals to seek surrogate mothers here.