The government is planning to come out with a TB prevalence survey across the country which would entail a community based study to detect TB. This would involve collection of sputum samples and digital X-Rays subject to symptoms found in the community being surveyed.

Even as India has the highest tuberculosis burden in the world, accounting for nearly one-fourth of the global incidence, experts advocate that there is a need to have epidemiological data on TB through a nationwide surveillance as was done in China a few years ago.