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Detailed explanation-1: -Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a campaign to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) from India by 2025, five years ahead of a globally-set deadline.

Detailed explanation-2: -ABOUT THE NTEP In 2020, the RNTCP was renamed as the National TB Elimination Program (NTEP) to emphasize the aim of the Government of India to eliminate TB in India by 2025.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, Ni-kshay 2.0, is a campaign to mobilize and render community support for persons with TB. The aim of the campaign is to eliminate TB by 2025. Under this campaign, any person, any representative or organization can adopt TB patients and the adopted patients will be taken care of.

Detailed explanation-4: -Visions & Goals of the National Strategic Plan 2017 - 2025 The Goal was to achieve a rapid decline in the burden of TB, mortality and morbidity, while working towards the elimination of TB in India by 2025. Detect, Treat, Prevent & Build. There is also across all four areas, an overarching theme of the Private Sector.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Delhi End TB Summit has started in New Delhi on 13th March 2018, which is co-hosted by the Union Health Ministry, WHO South East Asia Regional Office and Stop TB Partnership.