TB Mukt Bharat — The Elimination Push

TB Mukt Bharat is India's drive to stamp out tuberculosis, the country's deadliest infectious disease. The WHO Global TB Report 2025 records a 21% fall in India's TB incidence between 2015 and 2024, from 237 to 187 cases per lakh, nearly twice the global pace, alongside a 28% drop in TB deaths. Yet India had set itself the goal of ending TB by 2025, five years ahead of the world, and at 187 per lakh that deadline passed unmet. The programme has since gone into overdrive with a 100-day screening blitz, a Rs 1,000 monthly nutrition transfer, and a citizen Ni-kshay Mitra network feeding lakhs of patients.