India, March 29 -- In a step closer to the government's goal of making India Tuberculosis-free by 2025, the public health department has identified 42,175 new Tuberculosis (TB) cases during its 100-day special TB elimination campaign, officials said on Friday.

The TB elimination campaign was conducted under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) from December 7, 2024 to March 24, 2025 and covered 17 rural districts and 13 municipal corporations in Maharashtra. As many as 13,861,346 individuals in the state were screened for TB during the campaign, officials said.

As per the official data, the highest number of new TB cases (15,186) were found in Mumbai; followed by 2,505 new TB cases in the Thane Municipal Corporation ar...