Administration has issued instructions to the Medical department in Udaipur on Staff Salary to be withheld if number of deliveries fall below 10 at primary health centers.

Cash incentives to women for child births in hospitals (Janani Suraksha Yojna) seems failing since figures indicate institutional deliveries in South Rajasthan is on a decline.

Udaipur ranked 32 in the progress report upto November, laid by the Directorate of Medical, Health and Family Welfare services.  Rajsamand stood at 29^th position in the state list while Banswara and Dungarpur were at 26^th and 19^th ranks respectively.  

Upset by the poor show of the medical department in fulfilling the targets, Udaipur Collector issued instructions to the Health wing to chalk out an action plan at the earliest.  

At those primary health centers where number of deliveries is found below 10 cases, staff salary will be withheld, came the warning.

Statistics from the National Family Health Survey-3  indicated Rajasthan to be among the low performing states in terms of institutional deliveries with  the 19^th position in All India ranking with a mere 32 percent of institutional deliveries in the state.

Janani Suraksha Yojana, launched in 2005 aimed to decrease the neo-natal and maternal death rate  by promoting institutional delivery of babies.  The centrally sponsored scheme provides cash assistance  of Rs. 1,400 to each pregnant woman who delivers at state medical centers.

The ASHA activists are also paid Rs. 600 per case to encourage institutional deliveries among poor women.  However, despite all the efforts, desired results have not been obtained so far.

In Udaipur, against the annual target of 95,133 cases upto March 2014, only 38,253 deliveries have been registered in Government hospitals and Dispensaries, which accounted to 40% of the target up till November 2013.  The figure was observed to 7 percent below the targets achieved in 2012.

Rajsamand district achieved 48% of its target with 16,189 institutional deliveries.  Pratapgarh district scored best of the lot with 63 percent achievement of annual target upto November.  It ranked 4^th in the state while Chittorgarh stood second with accomplishment of 55.51 percent of target.

Dstrict         Target            Achievemnt     %Achiev       Rank

Udaipur                95133                    38253                    40.21                     32

Rajsamand          33269                    16189                    48.66                     29

Banswara            58100                    28685                    49.37                     26

Dungarpur          40796                    20919                    51.28                     19

Chittorgarh         33674                    18691                    55.51                     9

Pratapgarh          18931                    11992                    63.35                     4

                 Rajasthan       764959            912252          51.69  (up to Nov 2013)