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The Health Ministry held a two-day national workshop on the SUMAN Roadmap 2030 at Lucknow on 2-3 September 2026.
The Roadmap targets zero preventable maternal and newborn deaths by 2030 using a life-course, continuum-of-care approach.
Section A covers 13 high-focus states and 130 districts accounting for a disproportionate share of deaths; Section B covers all states and UTs.
Guidelines on Birth Waiting Homes were launched alongside IEC material on the Roadmap.
Assure free, dignified, respectful and quality care to every woman and newborn at a public health facility.
Key: Launched October 2019; its defining principle is zero tolerance for denial of services, and it brings the earlier maternal and neonatal schemes under a single service assurance.
Reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among poor pregnant women.
Key: Launched 12 April 2005 as a safe-motherhood intervention under the National Health Mission; it works as a conditional cash transfer tied to delivering in a facility.
Remove out-of-pocket costs from delivery and newborn care.
Key: Launched 1 June 2011, providing free maternal and neonatal services including delivery, drugs, diagnostics, diet and transport in public facilities.
Improve quality of care in labour rooms and maternity operation theatres.
Key: Launched March 2018, targeting the intrapartum and immediate post-partum period — the window in which most maternal deaths occur — through clinical protocols and respectful care.
Guarantee quality antenatal care on a fixed day each month.
Key: Launched 2016, providing free assured antenatal check-ups on the 9th of every month.
Nodal ministry for SUMAN and the Roadmap 2030.
The umbrella mission under which JSY, JSSK, LaQshya and SUMAN are all implemented, and through whose Programme Implementation Plans their funds flow.
The demographic survey that produces India's official Maternal Mortality Ratio estimates, run by the Registrar General of India.
GS Paper 2 > Governance > Issues relating to Health
General Awareness > Government Schemes
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
Maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births; India's figure is 97 as per SRS 2018-20.
Linking care across the whole maternal journey — pre-pregnancy, antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal — rather than at isolated contact points.
Accommodation near a health facility where women from remote areas can stay before delivery, cutting the delay in reaching care.