Ziqitza Healthcare ltd - Why public private partnership is blooming in India
                     Ziqitza Healthcare ltd - Why public private 
partnership is blooming in India
The public private partnership model gained popularity in the 
late 1980s, as an alternative tool to address the infrastructural 
inadequacies and to assist the governments in overcoming the 
financial investment constraints. The public private partnership 
model or framework gained prominence or became popular in 
both developing and developed nations. 
 
The Government of India defines the public–private partnership 
or PPP or 3P as a commercial legal relationship. 
Ziqitza Healthcare ltd, a prominent healthcare and emergency 
service providing organisation explains that public private 
partnership is an arrangement between a government, or 
statutory body or government owned body on one hand, and a 
private sector company or entity or body on the other hand, for 
provision of public services. 
Ziqitza elaborates that the government of India recognizes 
several types of PPPs such as, Performance based 
management/maintenance contracts, Modified design-build 
(turnkey) contracts, and User-fee based BOT model. The 
country today stands witness to hundreds of projects based on 
public private partnership models in various stages of 
implementation.
 
The Government of India is committed to improving the level 
and the quality of economic and social infrastructure services 
across the country. In pursuance of this goal, 
Ziqitza Healthcare explains that the government envisages  a 
substantive role for Public Private Partnership (PPPs) as a 
means for harnessing private sector investment and 
operational efficiencies in the provision of public assets and 
services.  
In the last one and half decade, India has witnessed exponential 
growth in PPPs, and has emerged as a leading PPP market across 
the globe. The credit for the framework's adoption goes to the 
central as well as state governments for introducing several 
policies and institutional initiatives targeted at adoption of the 
PPP framework and to leverage its benefits. Ziqitza Rajasthan, 
points out that the central government has categorically set up 
a Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee to manage 
and streamline appraisal and approval of projects. 
ZHL Rajasthan states that the central government has set up 
transparent and competitive bidding processes to ease the 
process of PPP within the country. The government has also 
provided for cross sectoral support to the PPPs through 
Viability gap funding, user charge reforms, project development 
funds, as well as institutional and individual capacity building. 
Ziqitza Limited correctly points out that India’s healthcare 
system faces multiple challenges in terms of improving the 
quality of service and also ensuring equitable access to 
healthcare for all. India’s healthcare needs to strengthen 
itself to be able to tackle future epidemics and pandemics, 
and also be able to manage the disease incidence profiles. 
And this can only be addressed with concerted effort of 
both public and private sectors. Ziqitza Limited Rajasthan, 
points out that India has been suffering with healthcare 
inadequacies and this grim reality became more evident 
during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike 
the first wave where the country was caught off guard, the 
second wave proved lethal due to lack of India’s 
preparedness, lack of adequate vaccines, oxygen, beds, 
medicines etc. 
Ziqitza Health care limited points out that these glaring gaps in terms 
of lack of access to healthcare infrastructure, accessibility, availability 
of medicines, inadequate health facilities etc, can be addressed 
through an effective and efficient public private partnership. Few 
benefits of PPP model in terms of strengthening the Indian 
healthcare system:
  Expertise: The experience and management expertise 
synonyms with the private sector can assist in revamping 
public medical facilities.
   Mutual Financial Benefits: The private sector can leverage 
its large funds to build healthcare infrastructure. Similarly, the 
public sector can bring in the required subsidies and 
accessibility.
   Increased Availability: The public private partnership model 
will assist the government with required resources to make 
healthcare available for the larger masses. 
  Affordable Healthcare: PPPs high-volume, low margin 
strategy can help attain universal healthcare for all.