India Unveils SUMAN Roadmap 2030 to Slash Maternal and Infant Mortality, ETHealthworld

June 29, 2026 Headlinesnews

New Delhi: The Centre is set to launch the ‘SUMAN Roadmap 2030’, a strategic framework to strengthen maternal and newborn healthcare in the country.

The roadmap is designed to address persistent gaps in the system and accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for reducing maternal and newborn mortality by 2030, according to the Union Health ministry.

Union Health Minister JP Nadda will launch the roadmap at the 16th Conference of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHFW) at Vigyan Bhavan on Monday, June 29.

The ministry said the strategic framework offers evidence-based interventions tailored to the needs of States and districts and adopts a life-cycle approach which integrates interventions across the continuum of care, including pre-pregnancy care, antenatal care, intrapartum care and postnatal care.

The roadmap includes a structured four-stage framework for identification, tracking and management of high-risk pregnancies.

It also provides contextualised interventions based on field-level learnings, including transportation challenges, access in tribal and hard-to-reach areas, quality emergency obstetric care, Jan Bhagidari through SUMAN Panchayats, and emerging challenges such as climate change, the ministry added.

Under the roadmap, targeted and time-bound strategies will be introduced in 130 districts and 13 high-focus States including Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.

It also outlines strategies for all States and Union Territories to sustain progress and achieve saturation of maternal and newborn health services.

“Community participation forms a key pillar of the strategy through initiatives such as SUMAN Panchayat, aimed at promoting zero maternal deaths, zero infant deaths, universal antenatal care, institutional deliveries and full immunization while strengthening local accountability,” the ministry added.

This is part of the ministry’s efforts to reduce the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) to below 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030 in line with the SDG, reduce Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), achieve saturation of maternal and newborn health services across all States and Union Territories, and realise the goal of zero preventable maternal and newborn deaths.