Uttar Pradesh government has set out ambitious goals for itself in the health sector in its Eleventh Five Year Plan (2008-12). One-sixth of the world’s population lives in India and one-sixth of India’s population lives in UP. The biggest resource for Uttar Pradesh is its large population and about 51.68 per cent of the state’s population is in the 15-59 age groups. In the years to come, the large and young working population of the state is going to be the chief asset for the state. If the state is to reap the benefits of a demographic dividend and become an economic powerhouse, it will have to ensure that people are healthy and live long. However the challenges are enormous looking at the huge gap between demand and supply of manpower, infrastructure, orientation and training, provision of all types of health services and existing pitfalls in vertical administrative control.  With the shrinking budgetary support and growing fiscal problems, state governments are finding difficulty in expanding their public facilities to cater to the growing healthcare needs of the population.

Thus requires a massive scaling up of investment in health, especially in rural health services. The most probable and effective option lies in public private partnership. Many state governments have already taken up such initiatives and these have yield a good results by making the regulatory mechanism transparent and accountable. Dr. Harshit Sinha took the leadership to complete this mammoth task for Vardaan Foundation. Looking at similar efforts done all over the country and in the world, an attempt have been made to give a competitive edge to the subject matter in context to India. The report is divided into five chapters.  The first chapter narrates relevance of the study and justifies public private partnership to develop a revenue sustainable model in the health sector. It also describes previous work done in this area. The second chapter gives the description of the study with objectives, methodology, study design and sample framework, while the third chapter describes the findings of the research study. The fourth chapter justifies the findings with probable revenue sustainable model for the health sector in the context of public private partnership and quotes Indian examples in this area. The Policy implications with recommendations and conclusion of the study are given in the last chapter. The report is available at http://varfound.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Revenue-sustainable.pdf