- Maternal mortality in India is estimated to be 407 in 1998 (SRS- RGI). - Most of the maternal deaths are due to complications of pregnancy like haemorrhage, anaemia, toxaemia, obstructed labour, unsafe abortions and post-porrum sepsis. These complications if identified and treated well in time, could save the lives of these women. - Vande Matram Scheme which was launched on February 9, 2004 i...

- The Balwadi Nutrition Programme was started in the year 1970-71 with an objective to provide full nutrition, entertainment facilities and informal school for providing early education to the children of 3-5 years age. - There are 5,053 Balwadis in the village/tribal and urban slums of the country, in which 2·25 lakh children are getting benefit. - This programme is being implemented by five...

- The Union health ministry launched a community-intervention based health programme for adolescents. - The programme, named Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK), aims at Mlivering services to youth from urban and rural areas, poor and affluent background and also to those in school or out of school. - The Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad,during the launch of the scheme in Delhi, sai...

- The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched on 12th April, 2005, to provide accessible, affordable and accountable quality health services even to the poorest households in the remotest rural regions. - The difficult areas with unsatisfactory health indicators were classified as special focus States to ensure greatest attention where needed. - The thrust of the Mission was on estab...

- Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a safe motherhood intervention programme, is an integrated package of services and cash benefit launched all over India on April 12,2005. - It has been launched by way of modifying the existing National Maternity Benefit Scheme (NMBS). - It aims to provide an integrated package of obstetric care services to expectant mothers throughout her pregnancy period, incl...