Objectives: This study primarily looks at understanding the influence of aid in framing the health policies of India. In this process, it tries to bring out the challenges and critics of aid as noted by scholars.
Methodology: The major aspects discussed in this study such as understanding the aid policies in India, its influence on policy formulation, aid transition, critics of aid received by India are largely derived out of the literature review and interviews conducted with some of the public health experts.
Findings/Application: There are three major policy aspects to the aid i.e., policy to streamline the aid receipts to India, India’s policy as a donor and importantly the policies of India influenced by donors. This study primarily has looked into the last aspect of it. The mixed economic policy of India, economic theories emerged at the world level and donors and their philosophies have influenced the health policy of India to a greater extent. The mixed economic model of the country adopted the selective health care system much before the proposal of the World Health Organization. Hence the policies at the national level and the influence of donors through the world economic policies such as globalization led to the issues such as privatization, a further decrease in the Govt expenditure on health etc have largely affected the health system of India.