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The United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the new development agenda on 25 September 2015 with the motto "Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development" by adopting 17 Sustainable Development goals and 169 targets, including one specific goal for health with 13 targets going well beyond Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The health goal is "Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages". Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is already the crucial benchmark for countries to assess and monitor progress against the SDGs. In 2017 the Government of India (GOI) unveiled the new National Health Policy (NHP 2017) intending to fortify the role of the Government in reshaping Health-care systems in all dimensions. With India's NHP 2017 in effect, the policy framework for changing the country's health paradigm correlates with the worldwide approach to health systems reinforcing UHC accomplishment. Concerted steps must be taken to realize the required results embarked on within the SDGs and NHP?2017, including government intervention to render health as a person's right; successful stewardship by the National Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; reorganization of health care service provision by enforcing a ''program approach" ensuring adequate security from health-care costs, and enhancing civic engagement and transparency. Though this new health policy will help in improving maternal and child health, however, it remains unspecific about 'Health as a fundamental right' and plenty of burning issues, including the nascent problems with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), violence against women, sanitation and, most significantly, ignoring the urgent need for a long- financial vision of primary health care furthermore as public health within the country. The present article discusses if the goals and targets proposed in NHP?2017 are aligned to achieve SDGs goals 3 and 6 through the existing health-care system in India.