The NTEP target for India is to end tuberculosis by achieving less than what incidence (per lakh population per year) by 2025?

• A Less than 44
• B Less than 100
• C Less than 1
• D Less than 10 ✓

Explanation

India's National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination 2017–2025 sets a target of reducing TB incidence to fewer than 10 per lakh population per year by 2025 (from approximately 210/lakh in 2015), in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The WHO End TB Strategy targets 90% incidence reduction by 2030 from 2015 baseline.

Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.

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