In Maharashtra as well as in rest of India, Primary Health Centre (PHC) are part of the government-funded public health system and are the most basic units of the healthcare system. They are essentially single-physician clinics usually with facilities for minor surgeries, too. The government of India in 2018 launched the Ayushman Bharat Yojana scheme.The Maharashtra declined to join because the state had its own state healthcare programme. That program called Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana was already functioning well. The state later joined Ayushman Bharat Yojana with special exceptions to make it part of its existing infrastructure. the initiative has two components- the National Health Protection Scheme and the Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs).Under the scheme,PHC have been converted to HWC and presently there are 248 in the state.