tetanus case per 1,000 live birth in every district per annum. India has been validated for
      Maternal and Neonatal tetanus elimination in May 2015. India achieved MNT Elimination
      through the strengthening of health systems by innovative programmes like Janani Suraksha
      Yojana (JSY) and Janani Shishu Suraksha Karayakaram (JSSK) to improve institutional delivery
      and by strengthening Routine Immunization.
      New Vaccines
      Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV):                 In concurrence with the World Polio End Game
      strategy, IPV was introduced in November 2015 in six states and expanded throughout the
      country by June 2016. Till August 2017, around 2.79 crore doses of IPV have been administered
      to children since its introduction.
      Rotavirus Vaccine:            This vaccine was launched in March 2016 in Andhra Pradesh,
      Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha, to reduce the burden of diarrhea caused by Rotavirus. It
      has been expanded to five more states namely, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tripura and
      Tamil Nadu. Approximately 88.73 lakh doses of Rotavirus vaccine have been administered to
      children since its introduction.
      Rubella Vaccine as Measles Rubella (MR) Vaccine: MR vaccination campaign
      targeting children from 9 months up to 15 years of age, was launched in 2017 in five states viz.,
      Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Lakshadweep and Puducherry where subsequent to completion of
      campaign the MR vaccine was introduced in routine immunization replacing measles containing
      vaccine 1 & 2 at 9-12 months and 16-24 months of age.
      Adult JE vaccine: Japanese Encephalitis vaccination in children was introduced in 2006.
      However, the vaccine was expanded in adult population of districts with high disease burden in
      2015. A total of 35 districts have been identified for adult JE vaccination in Assam, Uttar
      Pradesh and West Bengal.
      Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV): This vaccine is provided to reduce child
      deaths due to pneumonia - which is a major cause of child mortality. It was launched in 2017 in 3
      states i.e. in Himachal Pradesh (12 districts), Uttar Pradesh (6 districts) and Bihar (17 districts) in
      the first phase.
      India New Born Action Plan
            This was launched in 2014 with the goal of attaining “Single Digit Neonatal Mortality Rate
      (NMR) by 2030” and “Single Digit Still Birth rate (SBR) by 2030”. Under this, 661 special
      newborn care units (SNCU) at district level, 2321 newborn stabilization units (NBSU) at first
      referral units (FRU) level and 18,323 newborn care corners (NBCC) at delivery points are
      operational.
      Ayushman Bharat
            Ayushman Bharat - National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) a new centrally
      sponsored scheme was launched in 2018. This comes under Ayushman Bharat Mission anchored
      in the MoHFW. The Scheme has the benefit cover of ₹ 5 lakh per family per year. The target
      beneficiaries are to be more than 10 crore families belonging to poor and vulnerable population
      based on Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) database. With this, AB-NHPM will subsume