 NIKSHAY, the web based reporting for TB programme has been another notable achievement initiated in 2012 and has enabled capture and transfer of individual patient data from the remotest health institutions of the country.Consolidating a series of rapid and progressive advancements in RNTCP from 2016 onward, and with Government of India's commitment to achieve the END TB targets 5 years earlier, RNTCP was re-named as the National TB Elimination Program.The change came into effect from 1st January 2020 .This decision was declared by Special Secretary, Sanjeeva Kumar, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in a letter to all the State Chief Secretaries.