Mines ministry signs MoU with Central TB Division

The partnership aims for collaborative field actions like webinars and other awareness-building initiatives under the National TB Elimination Programme by engaging the CPSEs Ministry of Mines and Central TB Division of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare signed a Memorandum of Understanding in New Delhi for collaborative and convergent action towards the elimination of tuberculosis. The MoU was signed by Farida M Naik, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Mines and Dr KK Tripathy, Economic Advisor, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India in the presence of officials from both the ministries. All the field formations, CPSEs and Attached/Subordinate offices of the Mines Ministry joined the programme virtually. The MoU will forge inter-ministerial collaboration and strategic partnerships to achieve the target of Eliminating Tuberculosis (TB) in India by 2025. The partnership aims for collaborative field actions like webinars and other awareness-building initiatives under the National TB Elimination Programme by engaging the CPSEs, attached offices, subordinate offices and autonomous bodies of the Ministry of Mines. This initiative will also help in the capacity building of health functionaries of PSUs’ hospitals & health centres for specialised campaigns for the eradication of TB at the grassroots level.

PTI