A new service in the basket, Umri Panchyat, Madhya Pradesh
Jerky Orain is a young mother of a three-year-old son named Aman. She and her husband live in a village called Dighiya in Bero block of Ranchi, Jharkhand; and are expecting their second child. Agricultural labourers, despite weeks of hard work, the couple is about to earn a monthly income of mere Rs. 700.
When members of the Soochna Seva team met Jerky at an aanganwadi Kendra in Dighiya during a tikakaran (immunisation) camp in April 2015, they learnt that Jerky had been deprived of various social security schemes due to an incorrect address that had been printed on her Aadhaar Card. The team then made it its business to help Jerky get a new Aadhaar Card issued, so that she could open a bank account and start receiving benefits under the Janani Suraksha Yojana, a safe motherhood intervention under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to reduce maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among poor pregnant women.
Within days, Soochna Seva had collected the relevant documents from Jerky and submitted it to the authorities. Post a few follow-up sessions with them, Jerky had a new Aadhaar Card. She has now opened a bank account under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and has received benefits under the Janani Suraksha Yojana as well.
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