There is a global consensus that universal health coverage can only be achieved on the foundation of stronger primary health care system. There is a renewed attention on strengthening and delivering comprehensive primary health care services in India through health and wellness centres. While the AB-HWCs aims to address the existing challenges in PHC system, the effectiveness and success will be dependent upon a rapid transition from policy to implementation stage; focus on both supply and demand side interventions, engagement of community and civil society and other stakeholders, focus on effective and functional referral linkages; ongoing learnings, innovations and mid-course corrections, effective linkage and coordination between two components of Ayushman Bharat program, additional & complementary initiatives by Indian states, sustained political will & monitoring and evaluation of the process, amongst other. COVID-19 pandemic has further underscored the need for strengthening the primary health care at the earliest. The experience from India can have lessons and learnings for other low and middle-income countries to strengthen primary health care in journey towards universal health coverage.