Rajasthan's cash-plus scheme linked to healthier birth weights, finds study published in Nature Health
Jul 22, 2026
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], July 22: A Rajasthan state government-run maternal nutrition programme that paired conditional cash transfers with nutrition counselling and community outreach was associated with meaningfully better birth outcomes for mothers and newborns, according to a large-scale study published today in Nature Health, part of the Nature Portfolio, published by Springer Nature. Programme combining cash transfers with counselling associated with 7.4 percentage-point drop in low birthweight among 90,000+ newborns from tribal communities in southern Rajasthan.
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