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21JananiSuraksha YojanaJanani Suraksha YojanaIt has been estimated that nearly 1,20,000 women in Indiadie each year due to pregnancy related complications. Mostof these deaths are preventable by timely management ofcomplications during pregnancy, child birth and immediatelyafter birth.Child birth is safer at a hospital equipped with all facilities to Your role in Janani SurakshaYojanatreat complications during pregnancy. Many women deliverat home due to several reasons. Also families find it difficultto arrange merely for transport and buying medicines or pay doctors fee etc.Government of India has started a new scheme Janani Suraksha Yojana forwomen belonging to Below Poverty Line (BPL). Salient features of this schemeare as follows:Eligibility for JSY and cash awardsIn this lesson we willlearn aboutJANANI SURAKSHA YOJANAEligibility criteria forbenefitsCash assistance to all women belonging to BPL families and attained 19years age. Women undergoing third live births are also eligible providedthey undergo sterilisation