What is the main aim of Janani Suraksha Yojana of National Health Mission?

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Correct — A, reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), launched in 2005 under the National Rural Health Mission (now the National Health Mission), is a safe-motherhood intervention. It gives cash assistance to poor pregnant women who deliver in a government or accredited health facility, so that skilled, hygienic institutional deliveries replace unsafe home births — thereby cutting maternal and newborn (neonatal) deaths.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Promoting safe sexual practice is a family-planning/reproductive-health goal, not the aim of JSY.  (c) Widow pensions come under the Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme, not JSY.  (d) Housing/shelter for the poor is the aim of housing schemes (e.g. PMAY), not JSY.

Concept: JSY is a fully centrally sponsored, conditional cash-transfer scheme under the National Health Mission. By paying eligible mothers (and the ASHA workers who accompany them) for institutional delivery, it targets the biggest drivers of maternal and infant death — unsafe home births and the absence of a skilled birth attendant.

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