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TB cases in India drop by 21 per cent since 2015: Union Health Minister JP Nadda
Updated On: 03 December, 2025 08:07 AM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Nadda noted the importance of further penetration of TB screening services and awareness generation at the ground level for the success of the TB elimination efforts and encouraged the MPs to support these efforts in order to make it a Jan Andolan
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Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Jagat Prakash Nadda has highlighted that India`s TB incidence (new cases emerging each year) reduced by 21 per cent from 237 per lakh population in 2015 to 187 per lakh population in 2024, almost double the pace of the decline observed globally at 12 per cent, as per the World Health Organisation`s Global TB Report 2025, according to an official release, reported news agency ANI.
He stated that India`s mortality rate has decreased from 28 per lakh in 2015 to 21 per lakh population in 2024.
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