Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are now known to be the world’s most vulnerable people, the guiding principle on internal displacement by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair define IDPs[1]. In India due to lack of policy for the IDPs, displacement due to development projects deteriorate the traditional ways of reproductive health care practices of the displaced tribal women, but at the same time it gives an opportunity to get access to the modern health care services. The current paper is an attempt to explore the impact of development induced displacement upon the functioning’s and capabilities of reproductive health care of the displaced tribal women in the light of the capability framework with a particular focus on the opportunity and agency aspects of freedom. The opportunity and agency particularly includes the Government maternity services such as the Janani Sishu Surakhya Karyakram (JSSK) and Janani Surakhya Yojana (JSY).