India's Health Ministry launches JANANI, a digital maternal and child healthcare platform with 1.34 crore registrations, QR-enabled MCH cards, and real-time monitoring for improved maternal and neonatal outcomes.
In a landmark step towards modernising maternal and child healthcare delivery in India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has officially launched JANANI — Journey of Antenatal, Natal and Neonatal Integrated Care — at the recently concluded National Summit on Innovation and Inclusivity: Best Practices Shaping India's Health Future. The new digital health platform marks a structural reform in the way antenatal care, delivery, postnatal care, and newborn care services are tracked, monitored, and delivered across the country.
JANANI is a service-oriented digital health platform designed to comprehensively monitor and maintain digital health records of women throughout their reproductive age. Developed as an upgraded version of the existing Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) portal, JANANI creates a longitudinal health record by capturing key service delivery events across the full continuum of maternal and child care.
The platform ensures seamless tracking of maternal and child health services at every stage — from antenatal care and delivery preparedness to delivery, postnatal care, newborn care, home-based newborn and young child care, and family planning. By enabling continuous monitoring and timely interventions, JANANI strengthens service delivery and guarantees continuity of care for mothers and children across India.
JANANI introduces a suite of innovative features that distinguish it as a next-generation maternal health platform. Central to its design is the QR-enabled digital Mother and Child Health (MCH) Card, which enables portability and easy access to a beneficiary's complete health records from any location. Additional features include:
• Automated alerts for high-risk pregnancies, enabling proactive clinical intervention and reducing adverse outcomes.
• Real-time dashboards for supervisory review and due-list generation, supporting timely tracking and targeted interventions by health officials.
• Beneficiary registration using unique identifiers including ABHA, Aadhaar (OTP and biometric), and mobile number, with pan-India search functionality to ensure continuity of care for migratory populations and prevent duplication of records.
• Self-registration facilities through web and mobile platforms, empowering beneficiaries to actively engage with and manage their own healthcare journey.
A significant strength of the JANANI platform lies in its interoperability design, which enables seamless integration with major national health and nutrition platforms, including U-WIN and POSHAN. This facilitates smooth data exchange, improved coordination across government programmes, and comprehensive monitoring of beneficiaries across multiple sectors simultaneously. By bridging the JANANI digital health platform with existing national frameworks, the Ministry ensures that no woman or child falls through the cracks of the healthcare system due to administrative or data silos.
The platform also empowers citizens directly by enabling timely scheduling and monitoring of antenatal care visits and immunisations, along with automated alerts and reminders to ensure no critical health milestone is missed. Beneficiaries gain access to their digital MCH cards, information on nearby healthcare facilities, expected place of delivery, and health education content and nutritional guidance to support informed decision-making throughout their maternal journey.
Despite being a recent launch, JANANI has already demonstrated impressive early uptake, validating the platform's relevance and the strength of the government's delivery machinery. Key milestones achieved to date include:
• 1.34 crore total beneficiary registrations on the JANANI platform.
• Over 30 lakh pregnant women registered, ensuring their antenatal care journeys are digitally tracked from early pregnancy.
• More than 30 lakh digital MCH cards generated, giving mothers and children portable, QR-accessible health records.
• Over 1 lakh biometric verifications completed, strengthening authentication and data integrity across the platform.
Overall, JANANI marks a structural reform in maternal and child health administration by integrating digital authentication, real-time monitoring, and inter-sectoral convergence — thereby contributing to improved service coverage, greater accountability, and long-term reductions in maternal and child mortality indicators. The launch reflects the Government of India's continued commitment to ensuring accessible, equitable, and quality healthcare services, with a renewed focus on digital enablement, continuity of care, and improved maternal and child health outcomes for every Indian family.
