Article(s) of the CEDAW Provisions in the Constitution of India, Legislations, Policies, Reports, and Judgements the community. 8. Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020: Provides for the rights of the surrogate mothers and the children born through surrogacy. (The bill is under consideration of the Parliament.) 9. HIV & AIDS (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017: An Act to provide for the prevention and control of the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. POLICIES & SCHEMES: 1. Janani Suraksha Yojana, 2005, MoH&FW: Aims at reducing maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery of pregnant women. 2. National Health Mission, 2013: Aims to protect the reproductive health rights of women including ReproductiveMaternal-Neonatal-Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) Services based on the concept of a continuum of holistic care. 3. National Health Policy of India, 2017, MoH&FW: Aims to achieve the highest possible level of health and well-being and universal access to good quality health care services. It recommends increasing health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2025.3 Further, it provides gender-sensitive, effective, safe, and convenient healthcare services. 4. Health Data Management Policy under National Digital Health Mission, 2017: Aims to digitize healthcare in India. 65 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Gaps in the implementation of CEDAW in India (G) and its corresponding recommendations (R) G3: The Matru Vandana Yojana (Maternity Benefit Program), 2017, to support lactating mothers and pregnant women by compensating them for loss of wages during their pregnancy has been able to reach less than a third of the eligible beneficiaries.6 Further, the benefit is restricted to only the first living child, thereby, excluding the majority of pregnant women in the country. [CEDAW A. 12(2)] R3: The eligibility conditions stipulated for availing the benefits of the Matru Vandana Yojana (reproductive health services) should be made easier so as to ensure that the benefit reaches to all of its eligible beneficiaries. Women should be given benefits for the first two live births as was provided under the previous maternity benefit scheme ‘Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana.’ G4: The health status of rural women especially the maternal mortality rate (MMR) which is 113 (SRS 2016-18) is