The correct answer is National tuberculosis control programme. Explanation & Key Takeaways: • National tuberculosis control programme: • The National TB Programme (NTP) was launched by the Government of India in 1962 in the form of the District TB Centre model involved with BCG vaccination and TB treatment. • In in1993, the WHO declared TB as a global emergency devised the directly observed treatment – short-course (DOTS) and recommended to follow it by all countries. • The Government of India revitalized NTP as Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) in the same year. • DOTS was officially launched as the RNTCP strategy in 1997 and by the end of 2005, the entire country was covered under the programme. • DOTS programme: • DOTS is an acronym for Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course. • The DOTS strategy represents the most important public health breakthrough of the decade, in terms of lives that will be saved. • It is based largely on research done in India in the field of TB over the past 35 years. • As it is the only strategy effective in controlling TB on a mass basis, nearly 100 countries are following it.