'SUMAN Roadmap 2030' for Maternal and Newborn Healthcare

On 29 June 2026, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launched the SUMAN Roadmap 2030, a comprehensive and forward-looking strategic framework aimed at transforming maternal and newborn healthcare across the country and accelerating India's progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

Key Points

Evidence-driven Strategy: The SUMAN Roadmap 2030 is an evidence-driven strategy that combines national priorities with local realities to deliver equitable, high-quality maternal and newborn healthcare across the country.
Comprehensive Life-cycle Approach: Anchored in the RMNCHA+N framework (Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health Plus Nutrition), the Roadmap adopts a comprehensive life-cycle approach, integrating interventions from pre-pregnancy through pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period, while ensuring convergence with child health, adolescent health, family planning and nutrition programmes.
High-Risk Pregnancy Management: The roadmap establishes a systematic mechanism for the timely identification, tracking, and effective management of High-Risk Pregnancies (HRPs).
Four Key Stages of Care: It places special emphasis on four critical stages of maternal healthcare – antenatal care, third-trimester care, intrapartum care, and postnatal period – to ensure timely medical intervention and improved health outcomes.
Institutional and Digital Strengthening: To ensure effective implementation, the roadmap proposes the establishment of Centres of Excellence for maternal and newborn healthcare, a centralised SUMAN Call Centre for grievance redressal, stronger referral linkages across healthcare facilities, and robust digital monitoring and reporting mechanisms through the JANANI Portal.