1.0 INTRODUCTION According to United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), a child below 18 years of age who has lost one or both parents to any reason of death is considered an orphan(Unicef, 2012). By this definition, there were nearly 140 million orphans globally in 2015. Further, Asia accounts for a larger number of orphans in the world; 61 million(Unicef, 2012). The estimated number of orphans in India in the year 2010 was to be 2,32,46,000, which accounts for 6.8% of the total child population(Unicef, 2010).