In order to improve the process in curbing the high rate of mortality and infant mortality rate, the Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Odisha introduced a scheme named “MAMATA” – a conditional cash transfer maternity benefit scheme.
This scheme provides financial assistance to a beneficiary on successful delivery of a child or miscarriage by such beneficiary or his wife.
The scheme “Mukhya Mantri Matritva Sahayata Yojana” by the Women and Child Development Department, Haryana, aims to provide a cash incentive of ₹5,000/- during maternity to eligible pregnant and lactating women on the birth of a second child (boy).
The “Maternity Benefit Scheme” by the BOCW Welfare Board, Department of Labour, Punjab, is a welfare scheme that provides financial assistance to the female construction workers and spouse of the male workers to support childbirth-related expenses maximum for two living children.