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?

States/UTs have primary responsibility for public health and are asked to create state directorates/SPMUs/DPMUs for implementing national health schemes.

A student could infer that a centrally sponsored maternal-health scheme like JSY is likely channelled through state health machinery and verify by checking JSY operational guidelines or state NHM implementation lists.

National health programmes were merged with the National Health Mission, indicating consolidation of central programmes into a framework often implemented at state level.

One could extend this by checking how NHM is administered in states (via State Health Societies), which would indicate JSY’s likely administrative route.

Ayushman Bharat is described as a government-run national health programme covering households nationwide, illustrating the pattern of central health schemes with nationwide coverage.

Compare operational modalities of Ayushman Bharat/NHPM with JSY to see whether similar state-level implementation structures are used.

Identification and implementation of welfare programme beneficiaries (e.g., for food/security schemes) are performed by State Governments, showing a general pattern of states operationalising central schemes.

Use this pattern to hypothesize that beneficiary targeting and distribution under JSY would similarly be managed by state departments and then verify with JSY documents.

Example of AAY: poorest families were identified and the scheme implemented by respective state rural development departments, giving an example of state-level execution of central benefits.

Analogously, a student could check whether maternal cash incentives under JSY are disbursed via state health/rural departments and state administrative channels.

Describes a government maternal-health programme (Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan) explicitly aimed at reducing maternal and infant mortality by providing antenatal care and ensuring safe pregnancies/deliveries.

A student could infer that Indian health policy includes dedicated maternal-mortality reduction schemes, so they should check if JSY is similarly framed and whether it targets care for pregnant women.

National Population Policy lists reducing maternal mortality and achieving institutional deliveries among its explicit goals, showing maternal mortality reduction is a stated national objective.

A student can use this policy goal to reason that schemes introduced under this policy era (or later) likely aim at maternal mortality reduction and promoting institutional deliveries, suggesting JSY could fit that pattern.

Repeats the policy-level target to reduce maternal mortality rate (a formal numeric target), indicating programmatic focus on maternal mortality as part of population/health strategy.

One might extend this by checking whether JSY includes components (e.g., incentives for institutional delivery) that would operationally aim to meet such targets for maternal mortality reduction.

Explains how government schemes (Antyodaya Anna Yojana) identify and target the poorest BPL families for benefits, showing a pattern of poverty-targeted programmes.

A student could combine this with the maternal-health policy clues to ask whether JSY is similarly targeted at poor pregnant women (i.e., whether JSY follows the common pattern of targeting benefits to BPL/poor groups).

Gives the maternal mortality rate as a key reproductive-health indicator, showing that MMR is the standard metric used to judge programmes aimed at maternal health.

A student could use this metric to evaluate if JSY's stated outcomes or target population are intended to reduce MMR among poor pregnant women by looking for connections between JSY activities and reductions in this indicator.

Describes a government maternal/infant health programme (Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan) whose explicit aim is to reduce maternal and infant mortality by providing quality antenatal care and ensuring safe pregnancies/deliveries.

A student could generalize that Indian maternal health schemes use antenatal care and safe delivery services to reduce newborn mortality, and therefore test whether JSY uses similar mechanisms targeted at poor women.

Lists National Population Policy goals including reducing infant and maternal mortality and achieving a high rate of institutional deliveries and skilled attendants at birth.

A student could infer that schemes aiming to reduce neonatal mortality often focus on increasing institutional/skilled deliveries, so they could check whether JSY incentivizes institutional deliveries for poor pregnant women.

Gives an example (Antyodaya Anna Yojana) of a scheme that explicitly targets the poorest BPL families for benefits.

A student could combine this pattern (targeting the poor) with the maternal-health patterns above to assess whether JSY is plausibly a targeted scheme for poor pregnant women to improve newborn outcomes.

Describes Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan as a national maternal-care programme aiming to ensure safe pregnancies and deliveries through targeted services to pregnant women.

A student could generalize that Indian health policy includes dedicated maternal schemes promoting safe deliveries, and therefore look for JSY as another maternal scheme specifically aimed at deliveries.

Notes that women's self‑help groups regularly discuss social issues including health and nutrition, indicating grassroots mechanisms used to improve maternal health outcomes.

One could infer that programmes seeking to increase institutional deliveries might leverage SHGs for outreach to poor pregnant women and so check whether JSY uses such community channels.

Explains that government schemes identify poorest beneficiaries via a BPL survey to target welfare benefits to poor families.

A student could reason that if JSY targets 'poor pregnant women', the scheme would likely use BPL/poverty lists (or similar targeting) to identify beneficiaries and verify whether JSY does so.

Shows use of SECC (socio‑economic census) data to identify beneficiaries for targeted schemes (SAUBHAGYA).

One could extend this pattern to expect maternal-targeted cash/benefit schemes to use SECC or similar databases for beneficiary selection and then check JSY’s beneficiary identification method.

Lists government schemes focused on child/girl welfare (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Sukanya Samriddhi), illustrating a government pattern of gender- and age-specific welfare programmes.

A student might use this pattern to hypothesize that there also exist govt. programmes specifically for maternal outcomes (such as promoting institutional delivery), and then look up JSY’s stated objectives.

Describes a government programme (Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan) whose stated aim is to reduce maternal and infant mortality by providing quality antenatal care and addressing gaps in maternal care services.

A student could use this as a pattern that maternal-health schemes often target antenatal, delivery and immediate newborn care — so they should check whether JSY similarly focuses on antenatal/institutional delivery versus ongoing sick-infant care up to one year.

The National Population Policy (NPP) 2000 explicitly links policy goals to reducing infant mortality and achieving universal immunisation of children.

One could infer that some health programmes target infant survival through immunisation and mortality reduction, so a student could compare JSY's stated objectives against NPP-style infant-focused goals to judge if JSY covers sick infants up to one year.

Notes that adequate provision of basic public health facilities is associated with low infant mortality (Kerala example).

A student could use this to reason that schemes aimed at infant mortality would commonly involve public health facility provision — prompting a check whether JSY explicitly includes facility-based treatment for sick infants up to one year.

Describes Ayushman Bharat as a government health programme providing secondary/tertiary treatment coverage to households, showing that some national schemes provide curative care through public/private facilities.

A student could contrast JSY with broader health-coverage schemes (like Ayushman Bharat) to determine if JSY is primarily an incentive/maternity scheme or a scheme that also finances treatment for sick infants.