Prelims 2023 · Polity and Constitution · Question 81
Consider the following statements in relation to Janani Suraksha Yojana: 1. It is a safe motherhood intervention of the State Health Departments. 2. Its objective is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality among poor pregnant women. 3. It aims to promote institutional delivery among poor pregnant women. 4. Its objective includes providing public health facilities to sick infants up to one year of age. How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer
Only two
1. Incorrect. Janani Suraksha Yojana is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme under the National Rural Health Mission/NHM, implemented by States; it is not a scheme of the State Health Departments.
2. Correct. Its core objective is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality among poor pregnant women.
3. Correct. It specifically seeks to promote institutional delivery among poor pregnant women.
4. Incorrect. The provision about public health facilities for sick infants up to one year of age is not a core objective/feature of JSY; JSY is focused on safe motherhood and institutional delivery incentives.
Hence, only two statements are correct.