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• The National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA) provides that every Pregnant Women & Lactating Mother (PW&LM), except those who are in regular employment with the Central Government or State Government or Public Sector Undertaking or those who are in receipt of similar benefits, shall be entitled to maternity benefit of not less than rupees six thousand.
• To fulfil this mandate, the Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) in 2017. 
• Under PMMVY, maternal benefit of ₹5,000/– is provided to eligible Pregnant Women & lactating Mothers during the period of pregnancy and lactation. 
  • The eligible beneficiary also receives the remaining cash incentive under Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) after institutional delivery so that on an average, a woman gets ₹6,000/-. 

• PMMVY provides financial support to the mother for safe delivery and immunization of her first child.
  • From 2022, to promote positive behavioural change towards girl child, the maternity benefit is also provided to beneficiaries for second child subject to condition that the second child is a girl.