law: Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 
  44. After-care
  
  organization.-
  The State Government
  
  may, by rules made under this Act, provide-
  a.     
  
    for
  
  the establishment or recognition of after-care organizations and the functions
  
  that may be performed by them under this Act;
  b.    
  
    for
  
  a scheme of after-care programme to be followed by such after-care
  
  organizations for the purpose of taking care of juveniles or the children after
  
  they leave special homes, children homes and for the purpose of enabling them
  
  to lead an hones, industrious and useful life;
  c.     
  
    for
  
  the preparation or submission of a report by the probation officer or any other
  
  officer appointed by that Government in respect of each juvenile or the child
  
  prior to his discharge from a special home, children's home, regarding the
  
  necessity and nature of after-care of such juvenile or of a child, the period
  
  of such after-care, supervision thereof and for the submission of report by the
  
  probation officer or any other officer appointed for the purpose, on the
  
  progress of each juvenile or the child;
  d.    
  
    for
  
  the standards and the nature of services to be maintained by such after-care
  
  organizations;
  e.     
  
    for
  
  such other matters as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the
  
  scheme of after-care programme for the juvenile or the child;
  Provided that any
  
  rule made under this section shall not provide for such juvenile or child to
  
  stay in the after-care organization for more than three years;
  Provided further that
  
  a juvenile or child over seventeen years of age but less than eighteen years of
  
  age would stay in the after-care organization till he attains the age of twenty
  
  years.