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National One World TB Summit

INDIA FULFILLING PLEDGE FOR GLOBAL WELFARE

A NEW CHAPTER ADDED

TO THE HAPPINESS AND

PROSPERITY OF VARANASI

Varanasi, one of the oldest cities in the world is on the path of fast progress. On March
24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Banaras and laid the foundation stone and
inaugurated projects worth Rs 1780 crore for the development of his parliamentary
constituency. In Varanasi, PM Modi reiterated his commitment to the goal of eradicating the
more than a thousand-year-old disease 'of tuberculosis' and also pledged to global well-being
through the One World TB Summit. In the last nine years, the efforts of TB-free India have got
momentum and are being praised by the world community that expressed confidence that
India will eliminate TB by 2025.
hort TB Preventive Treatment (TPT), the official Anantnag at the district level for progress toward
Slaunch of National Level TB Free Panchayat, eliminating TB.
Family Centered Care Model for TB, and the Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership
release of India's Annual TB Report 2023 were Lucica Ditiu said at the One World TB Summit that
the highlights during One World TB Summit at India has a high burden of TB but has the best plan,
Rudraksha Convention Centre, Varanasi. Prime ambition, and diligence. Dr.Lucica said that India
Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the is on the way to eliminating TB by the year 2025
World TB Summit laid the foundation stone of under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi. She
the National Centre for Disease Control and High expressed confidence that India will eliminate TB
Containment Laboratory. Awarded Karnataka and by 2025. She also requested PM Modi to participate
J&K at the state level and Nilgiris, Pulwama, and in the high-level meeting on TB to be held on 22

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