Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has said that extensive publicity is being done for the TB-free campaign in Madhya Pradesh. Necessary instructions have also been issued at the district level.

Yadav said that Madhya Pradesh will be made completely free of TB. We are continuously working in this direction. Work is being done especially in dense settlements and other places. There are more than 2 thousand such Gram Panchayats in Madhya Pradesh that have become completely TB-free. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav said that today 56 gram panchayats of Ujjain district are also being declared TB-free.

To make Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mission a complete success in Madhya Pradesh, the state will be completely TB-free by 2025.

A meeting was held in New Delhi on Saturday under the chairmanship of Union Health Minister JP Nadda for a 100-day rapid TB elimination campaign and to make India TB-free. Yadav joined the video conferencing from Ujjain. Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan as well as other states also participated in this video conferencing.

Yadav said that Madhya Pradesh ranks second in the country in distributing food baskets. More than 3 thousand camps have been organized in the state. Along with this, more than 122 public awareness rallies have also been taken out. Not only this, more than 5 thousand people have taken oath to become Nikshay Mitra. A comprehensive campaign is being run in Madhya Pradesh for which special TB screening campaigns are also being run in industries, factories, brick kilns, and dense settlements.

Chief Minister Yadav said that along with the Mukhya Mantri Jankalyan Abhiyan, a special 40-day campaign will be run in the state, in which Nikshay Mitras are being created by giving comprehensive information about TB testing and its treatment. In the Jan Kalyan Abhiyan running till 26 January, work will be done with full force in Madhya Pradesh to make it TB-free.

Union Health Minister Dr. Nadda said that on the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has to be made TB-free by 2025. For this, all the states should work at their own level. TB patients are being found in 347 districts of the country, and they should be tested extensively. Along with arrangements for their treatment, health, and nutrition, extensive publicity should be ensured for public awareness.