{
  "id": 18839377,
  "title": "Rs 57 crore unspent: Delhi uses less than half of its tuberculosis budget in 2025",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/rs-57-crore-unspent-delhi-uses-less-than-half-of-its-tuberculosis",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-08T02:00:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Indian Express",
    "slug": "the-indian-express",
    "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/tuberculosis-budget-2025-funds-underutilisation-10955185/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Delhi utilized less than half of its allocated budget for the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) in 2025, with only Rs 51.32 crore out of Rs 108.27 crore spent, leaving Rs 56.95 crore unspent. Despite notifying 112,977 TB cases that year, the underspending highlights significant inefficiencies in fund utilization. Reasons for this gap include delayed releases, administrative bottlenecks, and inadequate digitization and beneficiary identification, which hindered timely transfers of benefits. Additionally, some TB centers and hospitals faced delays in procurement and infrastructure development, contributing to the shortfall. The NTEP's national trend of underspending is a reflection of broader issues in TB management, with global targets calling for the elimination of TB by 2030.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [
    "Delhi used less than half of its Rs 108.27 crore NTEP budget in 2025",
    "Only Rs 51.32 crore spent, leaving Rs 56.95 crore unspent",
    "Underspending due to delayed releases, bottlenecks, and infrastructure delays"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Administrative bottlenecks and procurement delays undermine the city's fight against tuberculosis, turning available funding into a missed opportunity to meet critical public health targets and support patient care.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}