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Detailed explanation-1: -Community engagement is the hallmark and it is becoming a social movement to end TB in India, ” Union health minister J.P. Nadda said.

Detailed explanation-2: -The National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), previously known as Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), aims to strategically reduce TB burden in India by 2025, five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the TB Free India campaign – a plan to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the target set by the UN’s sustainable development goals.

Detailed explanation-4: -The National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) of India is geared to meet the ambitious goal pronounced by the Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ending the TB epidemic by 2025 from the country, five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for 2030.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the Economic Survey of 2022, India’s public expenditure on healthcare stood at 2.1% of GDP in 2021-22 against 1.8% in 2020-21 and 1.3% in 2019-20. In FY21, gross direct premium income underwritten by health insurance companies grew 13.3% YoY to Rs. 58, 572.46 crore (USD 7.9 billion).