Nadda Launches JOSH Teams for Youth-Led TB Elimination

The correct answer is Joint Squad for Health. The Union Health Minister launched the JOSH Teams at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, and the squads are to work at district and block level under the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, carrying information on prevention, testing and treatment into households. Option B, Youth Squad for Hygiene, is wrong; the squads are indeed youth-led, but hygiene is only one of the healthy behaviours volunteers promote and does not form part of the name. Option C, Joint Outreach for Social Health, is wrong because the expansion uses Squad rather than Outreach, even though community outreach is exactly what the teams do. Option D, Junior Officers for Social Health, is wrong; a Class-I officer leads each team at the block or ward level, so the name does not refer to junior officers. The word squad is the clue, since each unit joins volunteers and cadets in one group.

The correct answer is five MY Bharat volunteers and five NCC cadets led by a Class-I officer. The design is deliberate: MY Bharat gives the platform for youth participation, the National Cadet Corps supplies discipline and reach, and a designated Class-I officer at the block or ward level provides official backing for the team's work. Option A is wrong because the teams are not made only of MY Bharat volunteers, and a doctor is not named as the leader. Option C is wrong, since ASHA workers and the National Service Scheme are not the two streams named for these squads, although health workers and volunteers of many kinds support the wider campaign. Option D is wrong on both counts, as the split is equal between the two streams and a district magistrate is not designated as the team leader. Note too that the Ministry of Defence is a partner precisely because NCC cadets are involved.

The correct answer is 21 per cent. Quoting the latest World Health Organization report, the Union Health Minister said tuberculosis incidence in India has come down by twenty-one per cent, which is well ahead of the global decline. Option A, twelve per cent, is wrong as the answer to this question, but it is worth remembering separately because that is the figure for the global decline over the same period, and the pairing of the two numbers is the most likely question in an examination. Option B, eighteen per cent, is wrong and is simply a plausible value between the two real ones. Option D, thirty-two per cent, overstates the achievement and is wrong. The companion figures to hold in mind are treatment coverage, which has risen to ninety-two per cent in India against seventy-eight per cent worldwide, and the goal of elimination by the year 2030 that India hopes to reach early.

The correct answer is 67,933 Panchayats across 697 districts. District-level TB Mukt Panchayats were felicitated at the event, and the Health Minister described the achievement as a measure of what community participation and local leadership can do, crediting health workers, elected representatives, Panchayati Raj institutions and volunteers for the result. Options A, C and D are wrong because each alters either the number of Panchayats or the number of districts, and the two parts of this fact are usually asked together. A related number to keep separate is the total count of districts in the country that joined the national launch virtually, which is higher than the number of districts with TB Mukt Panchayats. Candidates should also note that this recognition sits within the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, the campaign under which the JOSH Teams themselves were launched.