evidence: For profit making some private sector providers may perform unwanted CS deliveries, while woman themselves can also opt for CS delivery due to fear of pain or they believe CS deliveries are safer [15,16,17,18,19]. In current study, CS rates in private health facilities rates are much greater than the WHO recommended maximum limit of 15% for CS births [3, 20]. Other studies have also confirmed that there is greater prevalence of CS births in private sector health facilities as compared to public sector health facilities [21,22,23,24,25]. Though there has been a growing demand to revisit these rates, still these rates being selectively high in private sector is area of concern. Flagship program of Government of India. "Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan" (PMSMA) can be utilised so as to reduce service provider induced increased CS rate of private sector.