International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health | July 2019 | Vol 6 | Issue 7 Page 3131 International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Gupta S et al. Int J Community Med Public Health. 2019 Jul;6(7):3131-3139 http://www.ijcmph.com pISSN 2394-6032 | eISSN 2394-6040 Original Research Article Utilization of antenatal services by JSY beneficiaries in rural area of Pune district of Maharashtra Sachin Gupta 1 , Prasad Pore 2 *, Arvind Athavale 1 INTRODUCTION Health in its broad sense is not merely the absence of disease or provision of diagnostic or curative services. 1 In India, the government believes that health maintenance of people is a fundamental human right, does continuous efforts to reduce mortality and morbidity among vulnerable population. Maternal and child health issues in India remain in forefront of national health policies and programmes. WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA had reported that in 2015 India and Nigeria account for one third of maternal deaths worldwide. 2 India during 2015 alone accounts for 15% of maternal deaths worldwide. 2 One of the major concerns of the reproductive and child health (RCH) Program phase II, is the extremely low percentage of institutional deliveries in India. Initially in 2006 the number of institutional deliveries was almost negligible among women living below poverty line ABSTRACT Background: To combat the reproductive and child health (RCH) problems, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) had launched Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) in April 2005 in all states and union territories to promote institutional deliveries among the poor population through provision of antenatal, intra-natal and post-natal care services for women to have healthy outcomes of pregnancy and child birth. Hence this study has been undertaken on one of the important aspect of services that is antenatal care services with the objective to assess the utilization of antenatal care services among JSY beneficiaries in rural area. Methods: Cross sectional observational study done in the area under rural health training centre of a private medical college of Pune district. 1st October 2014 to 30th September 2015. Study sample: All JSY beneficiaries who delivered during study period (1st October 2014 to 30 th September 2015). One to one interview with the all 155 beneficiaries was conducted using the pretested, questionnaire. The interview was timed at minimum 6 week interval after the delivery. Data analysis was done by using SPSS 20.0 statistical software. Results: Majority 78 (50.3%) of beneficiaries out of 155 got registered themselves within 12 weeks of pregnancy. Antenatal coverage was quite good. Coverage of injection tetanus toxoid was 100% and all essential investigation have been carried out. Association between literacy level (up to higher secondary level) of beneficiaries and number of ANC visits was found statistically significant (p<0.001). Conclusions: In present study utilization of ANC services was found to be good. Keywords: Antenatal care services, Janani Suraksha Yojana, JSY beneficiaries Department of Community Medicine, 1 Chirayu Medical College and Hospital, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 2 Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University, Medical College Pune, Maharashtra, India Received: 06 May 2019 Accepted: 14 June 2019 *Correspondence: Dr. Prasad Pore, E-mail: prasad_pore@yahoo.co.uk Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20192863