Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Update on Leprosy cases in the country
National Strategic Plan & Roadmap for Leprosy (2023-27) to achieve zero transmission of leprosy by 2027
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21 MAR 2023 2:55PM by PIB Delhi
The Government of India has launched National Strategic Plan (NSP) & Roadmap for Leprosy (2023-27) on 30th January, 2023, to achieve zero transmission of leprosy by 2027 i.e. three years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.3. The NSP and Roadmap contains implementation strategies, year-wise targets, public health approaches and overall technical guidance for the programme. The strategy and roadmap focuses on awareness for zero stigma & discrimination, promotion of early case detection, prevention of disease transmission by prophylaxis (Leprosy Post Exposure Prophylaxis) and roll out of web-based information portal (Nikusth 2.0) for reporting of leprosy cases.
After achieving elimination status at national level, National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) has taken a number of initiatives to encourage early case detection of leprosy patients to prevent Grade 2 Disabilities, and to ensure free of cost treatment of leprosy patients. There are few districts within States/UTs, where leprosy is endemic. With various intervention introduced under NLEP in the last few years, number of new leprosy cases detected have come down to 75,394 in 2021-22 from 1,25,785 in 2014-15, accounting for 53.6% of global new leprosy cases. The current NLEP State-wise data is annexed.
India has achieved the elimination of leprosy as a public health problem as per WHO criteria of less than 1 case per 10,000 population at the National level in 2005.
State wise NLEP data FY 2022-23 (up to Jan’2023)
|
S.No.
|
State/UT
|
Prevalence Rate (PR)/ 10000 population
|
|
1
|
Andhra Pradesh
|
0.5
|
|
2
|
Arunachal Pradesh
|
0.1
|
|
3
|
Assam
|
0.2
|
|
4
|
Bihar
|
0.9
|
|
5
|
Chhattisgarh
|
2.3
|
|
6
|
Goa
|
0.2
|
|
7
|
Gujarat
|
0.4
|
|
8
|
Haryana
|
0.1
|
|
9
|
Himachal Pradesh
|
0.2
|
|
10
|
10 Jharkhand
|
1.4
|
|
11
|
11 Jammu & Kashmir
|
0.1
|
|
12
|
Karnataka
|
0.3
|
|
13
|
Kerala
|
0.1
|
|
2314
|
14 Madhya Pradesh
|
0.9
|
|
15
|
15 Maharashtra
|
1.2
|
|
16
|
16 Manipur
|
0.1
|
|
17
|
17 Meghalaya
|
0.0
|
|
18
|
18 Mizoram
|
0.1
|
|
19
|
19 Nagaland
|
0.1
|
|
20
|
20 Odisha
|
1.2
|
|
21
|
21 Punjab
|
0.2
|
|
22
|
22 Rajasthan
|
0.1
|
|
23
|
23 Sikkim
|
0.2
|
|
24
|
24 Tamil Nadu
|
0.3
|
|
25
|
25 Telangana
|
0.7
|
|
26
|
26 Tripura
|
0.0
|
|
27
|
27 Uttar Pradesh
|
0.4
|
|
28
|
28 Uttarakhand
|
0.3
|
|
29
|
29 West Bengal
|
0.5
|
|
30
|
30 A & N Islands
|
0.1
|
|
31
|
31 Chandigarh
|
1.4
|
|
32
|
32 D & N Haveli
|
1.0
|
|
33
|
33 Daman & Diu
|
0.1
|
|
34
|
34 Delhi
|
0.8
|
|
35
|
35 Lakshadweep
|
0.0
|
|
36
|
36 Ladakh
|
0.3
|
|
37
|
37 Puducherry
|
0.1
|
The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
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