Missed Opportunities of Janani Suraksha Yojana Benefits Among the Beneficiaries in Slum Areas

Authors

  • Wadgave Hanmanta Vishwanath Primary Health Centre, Valsang, Solapur
  • Gajannan M Jatti GMC, Miraj
  • Upendra Tannu Sure Start Project, Solapur

Keywords:

Missed opportunities, JSY, slum, beneficiaries

Abstract

In 2005, with the goal of reducing the numbers of maternal and neonatal deaths, the Government of India launched Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a conditional cash transfer scheme, to incentivize women to give birth in a health facility. But still the beneficiaries are missing the opportunities of JSY benefit due to various reasons. The objectives of the study were to explore the reasons of Missed opportunities of Janani Suraksha Yojana benefits among the beneficiaries and to suggest few recommendations depending upon the study results. It was a community based cross sectional study Conducted from Jan 2009 to Dec 2009 among 3212 women. The sample was collected by trained social workers in house to house activity. Out of 3212 women 360 (11.20%) were eligible for getting the benefit of Janani Suraksha Yojana. Among the 360 only 118 (32.78%) women got the benefit of JSY while, 242 (67.22%) missed the opportunity of getting JSY benefit due to Lack of information of JSY in 37.19% women followed by difficulty in getting the documents and card was not-filled in time by ANM were the common causes in 25.62% and 15.29% women respectively. finding shows the poor IEC efforts in the implementation of JSY, divulging most of the poor eligible women from their rights of JSY benefits. Hence, continuous IEC activity with active involvement of health service provider like ANM, MPW is needed.

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Published

2011-06-30

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Vishwanath WH, Jatti GM, Tannu U. Missed Opportunities of Janani Suraksha Yojana Benefits Among the Beneficiaries in Slum Areas. Natl J Community Med [Internet]. 2011 Jun. 30 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];2(01):40-2. Available from: https://njcmindia.com/index.php/file/article/view/1840

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