Mother & Child Tracking System (MCTS)

• Government of India has introduced web based name based tracking system called Mother & Child Tracking System (MCTS) across all the States & UTs to facilitate timely delivery of antenatal and postnatal care services to all the pregnant women and immunization to all the children.
• MCTS is an innovative IT system providing alerts to health service providers about the services due list and services delivery gaps. Furthermore, the system also provides ready reference about the status of services / vaccination delivered to pregnant women and children.
• Under MCTS, appropriate health promotion messages to beneficiaries that are relevant according to the month of pregnancy or date of birth of the child are being sent on mobiles of beneficiaries.
• MCTS is also being used for transfer of JSY benefits to pregnant women after delivery as is presently being done in 121 DBT districts. 
• A pilot to transfer ASHA payments directly into their accounts has also been initiated.
• Mother and Child Tracking Facilitation Centre (MCTFC) has been inaugurated on 31st January, 2014. 
• It is a major step taken by Government of India under the National Health Mission in improving the maternal and child health care services.

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JSY (Janani Suraksha Yojana) – 

• Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among the poor pregnant women.
• JSY is a 100 % centrally sponsored scheme and it integrates cash assistance with delivery and post-delivery care. 
• The scheme focuses on the poor pregnant woman with special dispensation for states having low institutional delivery rates namely the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Rajasthan, Orissa and Jammu and Kashmir. 
• While these states have been named as Low Performing States (LPS), the remaining states have been named as High performing States (HPS).