In these applications petitioners have made the following prayers: (a)(i) All GOvernment/juvenile homes, nursing homes and hospitals Government or private, will apply for declaration of a child as abandoned and free for placement and if the parents of the child are not known, such children should be transferred to the recog nised institution/placement agency as request ed for by them within a fixed time frame; (ii) all recognised placement agencies 'de pending upon their capacity to accommodate and care for those children after accounting for their age and qualification should be allowed to seek transfer of those children ,from Government/juvenile courts and nursing 'homes/hospitals and such institutions should be obliged to transfer the children such placement agencies; 572 (iii) Juvenile Welfare Boards/Courts should allow the aforesaid transfers in favour of the recognised agencies for rehabilitation through guardianshiP/adoPtion from VCAs/ CVARAS or otherwise; (iv) Juvenile Welfare Boards/Courts should not disturb the custody of children abandoned directly with the recognised placement agen cies when approached for declaring them as abandoned and free for placement and such orders may be passed ex parte and confirmed after notice to the concerned parties; (b)(i) Quota fixed by the Central Government for placement of children with Indian families may be quashed as being contrary to the deci sion in Laxmikant Pandey 's case; (ii) in the alternative, if this Court upholds the validity of the circular fixing the quota, the percentsge may be suitably reduced; (iii) this court may direct that if the quota is to be fixed, children with handicaps, medical problems and other drawbacks should be excluded from the total count as also girls above one year and boys above two years of age should be exclude from counting; (c) The State Governments and the various Union Teritories should be directed to issue birth certificates based upon attested copies.