Janani Suraksha Yojana — trace the payment

JSY's promise is simple — deliver in a public or accredited facility, get cash support — and its records are simple too. The catch is never the scheme; it is the chain: the form, the eligibility entry, the sanction, the transfer. Every link is a record, and the RTI Act reads every record.

• Low-performing states — a ₹1,400 mother's package in rural areas and ₹1,000 in urban, for all women delivering in a government or accredited private facility. Assam's NHM page states exactly this: ₹1,400 rural, ₹1,000 urban, “irrespective of age, birth order, or income group”
• Other states — ₹700 rural / ₹600 urban for BPL/SC/ST women delivering in a government or accredited facility
• Home deliveries — ₹500 for BPL women (Assam NHM: “Rs. 500/- is provided for Home Delivery only for BPL category”)
• The ASHA who facilitates gets a separate package — part of the same disbursement lists

Which side of the divide your state falls on decides the number on your sanction; the disbursement record decides whether you ever see it.

1. **Delivery at the facility** — the JSY card and the discharge record begin the file
2. **Eligibility entry** — the block/district health office records the claim against the mother's details and account
3. **Sanction and transfer list** — payments go by periodic disbursement lists against sanctioned claims
4. The breaks: a missing eligibility entry, an account mismatch, or the claim sitting on a list that was never pushed

1. Copy of my JSY claim for delivery dated ____ at ____ facility — date of receipt, eligibility recorded, and present status.
2. The JSY disbursement list for block ____ for the months ____ — names, amounts and transfer dates.
3. The number of JSY claims pending payment beyond 90 days in district ____, as on date.
4. Copy of the sanction entry for the JSY claim of ____ (mother's name, delivery date ____).

Point 2 is the one offices least enjoy producing — and the one that answers every “where is it” question at once. Address the application to the PIO of the state health department / NHM mission directorate; ₹10; 30 days; first appeal to the FAA; second to the State Information Commission.

1. Ask at the facility first — the JSY desk at the community health centre can see the claim's entry stage
2. Keep the discharge card and the JSY card — they carry the identifiers the file is indexed under
3. Bank passbook — the transfer reference, if any, names the batch
4. ASHA as witness — she is in the record too; her facilitation payment shares the list

Real example. Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak helped a patient whose ₹1,400 had been “processing” for seven months. The disbursement-list copy showed three batches cleared in that window without her name; the eligibility entry had one digit of the account wrong. The correction, applied with the RTI reply attached, paid out in the next batch — and the same reply carried two more mothers from the same village whose names were missing from all three lists.

In low-performing states including Assam, ₹1,400 rural and ₹1,000 urban for deliveries in government or accredited facilities. In other states, ₹700 rural / ₹600 urban for BPL/SC/ST women, and ₹500 for BPL home deliveries.

BPL, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe women delivering in a government or accredited private facility — the state's NHM page names its own conditions.

By direct transfer to the mother's account, against sanctioned claims on periodic disbursement lists.

Her facilitation payment rides the same lists — she has an interest in the batch clearing, and often knows exactly which stage is stuck.

• eSanjeevani — free teleconsultation and its records
• Jal Jeevan Mission — records for rural water
• File RTI online — the 12-step guide
• The RTI Playbook

• Assam NHM — Janani Suraksha Yojana page: ₹1,400 rural / ₹1,000 urban for all mothers, ₹500 BPL home delivery (nhm.assam.gov.in)
• JSY cash-assistance structure — ₹1,400/₹1,000 in low-performing states; ₹700/₹600 in others — per the JSY guidelines as summarised on the national health-programme references (Vikaspedia, MeitY)
• nhm.gov.in — National Health Mission

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026. Amounts verified against the Assam NHM JSY page and the national JSY structure as published on MeitY's Vikaspedia; both fetched on this run.