Consider the following statements in relation to Janani Suraksha Yojana:1.It is 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?

1. A

   Only one

   Only one. Two JSY statements hold.

2. B

   Only two

   Only two. Cut maternal and neonatal deaths among poor women, and raise institutional delivery. It is a centrally sponsored NHM scheme, not a State-department invention; infant care to one year is not JSY’s objective.

3. C

   Only three

   Only three. Statement 1 and statement 4 over-claim.

4. D

   All four

   All four. JSY is not ‘of the State Health Departments’ as owner, and year-long sick-infant care is another scheme.

Summary. Official key is (b) only two. Janani Suraksha Yojana is a safe-motherhood scheme under NHM: cash incentive to raise institutional delivery and cut maternal and neonatal mortality among poor women. It is not framed as a State Health Department programme, and care of sick infants up to one year is not its listed objective (that sits with other RMNCH schemes).