India has been transitioning from rural to quasi-urban due to rapid urbanization over the last two decades and is expected to continue in the coming years. It is estimated that 43.2% of India’s population, i.e., 675 million people, will reside in Urban conglomerates by 2035 (UN-Habitat 2022). While urbanization has provided economic growth and socio-economic development opportunities, it has also brought adverse health issues, such as the rising burden of non-communicable diseases, road traffic injuries, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and substance abuse. These urban health problems are influenced by non-medical factors like socio-cultural, economic, and demographic characteristics (gender, race, ethnicity, caste, religion, education, wealth, behavior, lifestyle), living environment (out-door safety, air, climate), access to safe basic amenities (food, water, shelter), public goods & services (healthcare, sanitation, wage, employment, law & order, electricity, mobility, social-security nets, information) viz., collectively termed as social determinants of health. Against this background, in September 2021, the National Institution for Transforming India technical committee on “Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity” recommended that the Government of India transform 500 cities into “Healthy Cities for All” through 2030 a city-specific master plan supported by concerted multisectoral actions at intersections of spatial planning, public health, and socio-economic development.