New Delhi: The flagship TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan has diagnosed 26.43 lakh cases of tuberculosis between December 2024 and 2025, Union Health Minister JP Nadda told the Parliament on Friday.

TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan (National TB Elimination Programme) is implemented under the aegis of National Health Mission (NHM) in all the states of the country.

“Under the Abhiyan (from December 7, 2024, to December 9, 2025), through screening of the vulnerable population, 26.43 lakh TB cases were diagnosed, including 9.19 lakh asymptomatic TB cases and covered under treatment,” Nadda shared in the Lok Sabha.

Citing the World Health Organization’s Global TB Report 2025, he noted that the incidence and mortality rate of the world’s most deadly infectious disease have declined in the country.

As per the WH

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