A day after the city witnessed its first successful heart transplant, the state government has amended organ transplant rules that ease the process, and will make registration of donation of certain organs mandatory in the state.

Maharashtra cabinet made changes in the Centre’s Act The Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994 which was amended in 2011 in this regard on Tuesday and widened the definition of family. Henceforth grandparents maternal and paternal will also be able to receive and donate organs within the family (immediate relatives).