In any community, mother and children constitute a priority group; they comprise approximately 71.14% of the population of the developing countries. In India women of the child bearing age constitute 22.2% and children under 15 years of age about 35.3% of the total population together they constitute nearly 57.5% of the total population.  Mother and children not only constitute a large group but they are also a vulnerable or special risk group. The risk is connected with child bearing in the case of women and survival in case of children. Global observation shows that in developed regions MMR averages at 13/100,000 live births, in developing regions the figure is 440 for the same number of live births. From commonly accepted indices, it is evident that infant, child and MMR are high in many developing countries. Further much of the sickness and deaths among mother and children is largely preventable by improving the health of the mother and children. To mitigate the problem, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare launched Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) on 1st June, 2011 to provide better health facilities for pregnant women and sick neonates. The scheme emphasizes utmost importance on “Free Entitlements”. The idea is to eliminate out-of-pocket expenses for both pregnant women and sick neonates. The Rajasthan state government on 12 September 2011 launched the ambitious Janani Shishu Suraksha Yojna at Dudu near Jaipur in all the 33 districts. The Scheme aims to bring down maternal and child mortality rate in the state. Under the scheme, the government will provide free treatment and transport facility to pregnant women and sick infants. Along with this, all the pregnant women would be provided medicines and other consumables before, during and till 6 months after the delivery. Likewise, the sick infants would be provided all medicines free up to 30 days of their birth. The pregnant and infants would also be provided free transport facility from home to health institute. One lakh 18 thousand private ambulances, taxies and other vehicles have also been listed in the concerned areas of all the districts to provide transport facility from the remote villages to the hospitals.

Keywords: Antenatal Mothers, JSSY, Vulnerable Group, Asha Workers, Beneficery.