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Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) (2014)
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare launched on 7th January, 2014 a health programme, named Rashtriya
Kishor Swasthya Karyakram, for adolescents, in the age group of 10-19 years, which would target their nutrition,
reproductive health and substance abuse, among other issues. The key principle of this programme is adolescent
participation and leadership, Equity and inclusion, Gender Equity and strategic partnerships with other sectors
and stakeholders. The programme envisions enabling all adolescents in India to realize their full potential by
making informed and responsible decisions related to their health and well being and by accessing the services
and support they need to do so. The objectives of this programme are to Improve Nutrition, Improve Sexual and
Reproductive Health, Enhance Mental Health, Prevent Injuries & violence and Prevent substance misuse.
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WHO on 24th February 2012 removed India from the list of “endemic countries with active polio virus
transmission” (2012)
India committed to resolution passed by World Health Assembly for global polio eradication in 1988. National
Immunization Day (NID) commonly known as Pulse Polio Immunization programme was launched in India in 1995,
and is conducted twice in early part of each year.
India was removed from the list of countries with active endemic wild poliovirus transmission by WHO on 24th
February 2012 as no wild poliovirus was detected from any source for more than 12 consecutive months after
13th January 2011 in Howrah district of West Bengal.
Indian along with ten other countries of South East Asia Region of World Health Organization (WHO) was
subsequently certified “that the transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus has been interrupted in all countries
of the region.
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Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK) (2011)
Government of India has launched Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK) on 1st June, 2011. The scheme is
estimated to benefit more than 12 million pregnant women who access Government health facilities for their
delivery. It is an initiative with a hope that states would come forward and ensure that benefits under JSSK would
reach every needy pregnant woman coming to government institutional facility.
The launch of Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram signals to huge leap forward in the quest to make “Health for All”
a reality. It invokes a new approach to healthcare, placing for the first time, utmost emphasis on entitlements and
elimination of out of pocket expenses for both pregnant women and neonates. The initiative entitles all pregnant
women delivering in public health institutions to absolutely free and no-expense delivery. All expenses relating to
delivery in a public institution are borne by the government. Under this initiative, a pregnant woman is entitled
to free transport from home to the government health facility. Entitlement includes free drugs and consumables,
free diagnostic, free blood, free diet for the duration of a woman’s stay in the facility. Similar entitlements have
been put in place for all sick newborns accessing public health institutions for healthcare till 30 days after birth.
They are entitled to free treatment besides free transport, both ways and between facilities in case of a referral.
JSSK is estimated to benefit more than one crore pregnant women and newborns every year both in urban and
rural areas. It supplements the cash assistance given to a pregnant woman under Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY).