During the summit, PM Narendra Modi is also expected to formally launch the National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination 2017-25 (NSP) which was unveiled last year.

Last year, India unveiled the TB strategic plan towards elimination of the bacterial infection by 2025 — Modi had earlier announced that India will eliminate TB before the global deadline.

When Dr Harsh Vardhan shared the stage with PM Narendra Modi at the valedictory session of the 6th World Ayurveda Congress at Pragati Maidan, he outlined his grand plans for an Ayurveda Mission. Seven hours later, he was stripped of the Health Ministry — that he is passionate about — and shunted to the low key Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences. He was replaced by J P Nadda.

Efforts to promote a tuberculosis test, recommended in the US, as a diagnostic test by laboratories in India is facing stiff resistance by medical experts who are questioning its efficacy.