Tuberculosis has been in existence since time immemorial. Despite the progress made over the last decade, it continues to remain a major global public health problem claiming over 4,000 lives a day. According to the report by World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 100 crore people are suffering from TB globally and India alone accounts for around 27 per cent of these cases. While the elimination of TB seems a herculean task, India under the aegis of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi India has accorded high priority for eliminating the disease by 2025, five years ahead of the SDG target. With bold and innovative programmes, the Government has taken several critical steps towards fulfilling this objective, the bedrock being the development of The National Strategic Plan (NSP) in 2017. With historic funding of over 12,000 crore rupees, the NSP is built on a multi-pronged approach that seeks to ‘Detect’ all TB patients seeking care from private providers and undiagnosed TB in high-risk populations, ‘Treat’ all patients irrespective of where they seek care adopting a patient centric approach, ‘Prevent’ emergence of TB in susceptible population groups and ‘Build’ empowered institutions and human resources to streamline implementation. To galvanize efforts and go beyond the activities assigned under NSP, the Prime Minister also launched the TB-free India Campaign in 2018.