Vision

• To provide effective healthcare to rural population throughout the country with special focus on 18 states, which have weak public health indicators and/or weak infrastructure.
• 18 special focus states are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur , Mizoram, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Orissa , Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh.
• To raise public spending on health from 0.9% GDP to 2-3% of GDP, with improved arrangement for community financing and risk pooling.
• To undertake architectural correction of the health system to enable it to effectively handle increased allocations and promote policies that strengthen public health management and service delivery in the country.
• To revitalize local health traditions and mainstream AYUSH into the public health system.
• Effective integration of health concerns through decentralized management at district, with determinants of health like sanitation and hygiene, nutrition, safe drinking water, gender and social concerns.
• Address inter State and inter district disparities.
• Time bound goals and report publicly on progress.
• To improve access to rural people, especially poor women and children to equitable, affordable, accountable and effective primary health care.