THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
(SHRI GHULAM NABI AZAD)
(a): The present eligibility criteria to receive JSY benefits is as follows:
Eligibility criteria for institutional delivery
Low Performing States (LPS) - Uttar Pradesh, All pregnant women delivering
Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, in general wards of government
Chhattisgarh, Assam, Rajasthan, Orissa, and health centres or accredited
Jammu and Kashmir private health facility.
High Performing States (HPS)- All BPL / Scheduled Caste / Scheduled
remaining States/UTs Tribe women delivering in general wards of government health centre or accredited private health facility.
Eligibility criteria for home delivery
In all States (LPS and HPS) BPL pregnant women who prefer to deliver at home.
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) under JSY are expected to:
1. Identify pregnant woman as a beneficiary of the scheme and report or
facilitate registration for ANC,
2. Assist the pregnant woman to obtain necessary certifications wherever
necessary,
3. Provide and / or help the women in receiving at least three ANC checkups
including TT injections, IFA tablets,
4. Identify a functional Government health centre or an accredited private
health institution for referral and delivery,
5. Counsel for institutional delivery,
6. Escort the beneficiary women to the pre-determined health center and stay
with her till the woman is discharged,
7.Arrange to immunize the newborn till the age of 14 weeks,
8. Inform about the birth or death of the child or mother to the ANM/MO,
9. Post natal visit within 7 days of delivery to track mother’s health after
delivery and facilitate in obtaining care, wherever necessary,
10. Counsel for initiation of breastfeeding to the newborn within one-hour
of delivery and its continuance till 3-6 months and promote family planning.
(b): Details of funds allocated and utilized under JSY is at Annexure-1.
The number of beneficiaries reported under JSY is at Annexure-2.
JSY is considered as one of the important factors in reduction of infant and
maternal mortality. Infant and Maternal mortality figures State/UT-wise are
at Annexre-3 & 4 respectively.
(c): One instance of irregularity under JSY has come to the notice of the
Ministry wherein an ANM from Gogrud Subcentre in Udaipur district of
Rajasthan, had claimed JSY benefits in the name of fictitious beneficiaries.
For proper implementation of the scheme, the Ministry has issued following
instructions to State Governments:
# To ensure fast and seamless flow of funds under JSY from State headquarters
to District and further to Block PHCs and Sub-centre levels and payment of cash
assistance before discharge of pregnant women after delivery;
# Setting up of grievance redressal cells for prompt redressal of all
grievances;
# Public display of names of all JSY beneficiaries in health facilities on
a monthly basis so as to ensure transparency and check fraudulent payments;
# Payment of cash assistance under JSY to all beneficiaries only through
account payee cheques/Direct Benefit Transfer mode;
# Physical verification of beneficiaries by State and District officials
in a random manner in order to check fictitious payments;
Further periodic verification of beneficiaries and assessment of the scheme
is being done by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare through the
Regional Evaluation Teams (RETs) of the Regional Directorates.
The Ministry has also decided to conduct annual transaction audit of the
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) through the Comptroller & Auditor
General of India (CAG) in all the States from the Financial Year 2011-12 in
order to facilitate independent monitoring and to take corrective measures
to control financial irregularities.
(d) & (e): The Government has relaxed the eligibility parameters for availing
JSY benefit and enhanced the extent of the scheme to enable more pregnant
women to give birth in a health facility. The conditions of age of mother
i.e. 19 years or above and upto two children have been removed in High
Performing States for institutional delivery. Also, these conditionalities
of age of mother and number of children have been removed for BPL pregnant
women preferring to deliver at home in all the States/UTs.
