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Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana

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This scheme was earlier known as Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana, but back in the year 2017, its name is changed to Pradhan Mantri Matritva Yojana. The scheme is introduced by the Ministry of women and child development to offer benefits to pregnant and lactating mothers above the age of 19 years. Maternal health plays an important role in enabling women to have relatively easy and complication-free delivery.

The objective of Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana:

• The mother can take proper rest before and after the delivery of the first living. The Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana is introduced for providing cash compensation against any wage loss.
• A woman who is going through pregnancy must do good institutional and healthcare to reduce the risk of diseases. For the same, she should get enrolled in Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana.
• To promote healthy behavior among lactating or pregnant mothers, the scheme is aimed to offer good nutrition and feeding practices to reduce infant mortality rate and malnutrition.

Who can all enroll in this scheme?

All pregnant or lactating mothers excluding those who are working with the Government or those who are receiving similar benefits under some other law for the time being can avail Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana.

This scheme applies to all those women who conceive after 01/01/2017 and the pregnancy being the first child in the family.

Benefits of Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana

The incentive disbursal structure under Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana is divided into three installments:

• Making early registration of the pregnancy at an Anganwadi Centre/ approved health facility is Rs 1000.
• Post-six months of pregnancy and receiving at least one Natal check-up is Rs 2000.
• After the birth of a child is registered, and the child has received the first cycle of immunization for BCG, OPV, DPT, and Hepatitis-B - Rs. 2,000.

Documents required to get enrolled in this scheme:

• Copy of the Mother and Child Protection Card (MCP).
• Copy of the Identity Proof of the beneficiary and her husband.
• Copy of Bank Account/Post Office Account Passbook.

How to register under Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana:

• Visit the website of https://pmmvy-cas.nic.in
• Fill in the registration form (Application Form 1A)
• It is available under the “New Beneficiary” button which is also filled in with the relevant details with the help of the user manual.
• After Application Form 1A is submitted, it will enable the applicant to receive the first installment of the scheme.
• After 6 months, to avail of the second installment, the applicant must log in again, click on the “second installment”, tab and proceed to fill in Form 1B as per the instructions given in the user manual.

The exceptional cases where the beneficiary can claim under Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana:

Miscarriage/Stillbirth

In case of miscarriage or stillbirth, the beneficiary is liable to claim the remaining installments. For example, if the beneficiary has received the first installment and then got a miscarriage, she still can make a claim.

Infant Mortality

In the case of infant mortality, if the benefit has availed of all the benefits of PMMVY, she cannot make a claim again.

Bottom Line

Due to various social factors, most women work until the last stage of pregnancy to remain healthy during the maternity period.  After the delivery, women need proper rest or time for recovery. As if will not give rest to their body, it will affect their ability to breastfeed the baby properly. So, nourishment is essential in the first six months both for the mother and the baby. To address this concern, Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana was launched.