NITI Aayog has launched SATH, a program providing 'Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital' with the State Governments. This has been launched for furthering the agenda for cooperative federalism. The vision of the program is to initiate transformation in the education and health sectors. The program addresses the need expressed by many states for technical support from NITI.<br/><br/>SATH aims to identify and build three future 'role model' states for health systems. NITI will work in close collaboration with their state machinery to design a robust roadmap of intervention, develop a program governance structure, set up monitoring and tracking mechanisms, hand-hold state institutions through the execution stage and provide support on a range of institutional measures to achieve the end objectives. The program will be implemented by NITI along with McKinsey & Company and IPE Global consortium, who were selected through a competitive bidding process.<br/><br/>Of the five shortlisted states three will be selected on the basis of further evaluations.The program will be launched in the three selected states after the signing of MoUs.