Lok Sabha Question No. 1810 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-27
Subject: Prevention of Vector Borne Diseases
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: GAJANAN CHANDRAKANT KIRTIKAR, SUDHEER GUPTA, KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH, KURUPPASSERY VARKEY THOMAS, SANKAR PRASAD DATTA, SUNIL KUMAR SINGH, VIJAY KUMAR S.R., NABA KUMAR SARANIA, BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO, PONNUSAMY VENUGOPAL, T. RADHAKRISHNAN, S. RAJENDRAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1810 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27 th JULY, 2018

## PREVENTION OF VECTOR BORNE DISEASE S

## 1810. SHRI GAJANAN KIRTIKAR:

SHRI SUDHEER GUPTA:

KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH:

PROF. K.V. THOMAS:

SHRI SANKAR PRASAD DATTA:

SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

SHRI S.R. VIJAYAKUMAR:

SHRI NABA KUMAR SARANIA:

SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO:

DR. P. VENUGOPAL:

SHRI T. RADHAKRISHNAN:

SHRI S. RAJENDRAN:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of various schemes launched for prevention of Malaria, Dengue and other Vector Borne Diseases (VBDs) in the country;
- (b) the details of the funds allocated for these sche mes during the last three years and the current year;
- (c) the number of deaths caused by diseases spread by mosquitoes in each State/UT during the last three years and the current year;
- (d)  whether  the  Indian  Institute  of Techn logy  has  developed  a  new techniqueto  eliminate Dengue mosquito and its eggs, if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the progress made in reducing the Malaria, Dengue and other VBDs cases in the country?

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND

ANSWER FAMILY WELFARE (SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL )

- (a)& (b): Directorate of National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NVBDCP) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare deals with the following vector borne dise
- a) Malaria
- b) Dengue
- c) Chikungunya
- d) Japanese Encephalitis (J E)
- e) Kala- azar (KA)
- f) Lymphatic Filariasis (LF)

Directorate of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) provides technical  guidance  and  funds  to  States/UTs  for  prevention  and  control  of  the  vector diseases.Funds allocated to the Stat es/UTs during the last three years and current year is are Annexure-I.

- (c) : Statement showing deaths due to the vector borne diseases is  at Annexure -II.
- (d) : Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras claims to have developed equipment wh catche s mosquitoes, but in no way claims to decrease dengue.
- (e): In  the  recent  years,  incidences  of  vector  borne  diseases  like  malaria,  kala - azar nd lymphatic filariasis have been decreasing continuously in the country.  There has been a dras decline in number of malaria cases in 2017 ( nearly 22.32%) as compared to 2016.  Deaths d malaria have also been reduced by nearly 41.38% in 2017 as compared to 2016.  Simil ar decline continues in the early 2018 as well.

Similarly, in kala -azar, the number of KA cases have decreased from 44533 in 2007 to 24212 in 2009 and in 2017 -only 5758 cases have been reported and in the year 2018 (till now only 1890 cases are detect d with no deaths.

Endemicity of Lymphatic Filariasis has also been decreased.  At present it is only to  137 districts out of 256 districts identified in 2009.  The remaining distric undergoing Mass Drug Administration (MDA) for eli minat on of LF.

Progress made in reducing the Dengue cases in the country are as under:

- Monitoring and supervision for early case detection, prevention and control.
- During 2018 (till 30.06.18), 5 advisories issued and 6 reviews and one video confe held.
- Diagnostic facilities are provided through identified 618 Sentinel Surveillance Ho (SSHs) and 16 Apex Referral laboratories (ARLs) across the country.
- During  2018  (till  30.06.18),  Government  of  India  supplied  1678  Dengue  kits  throu National I nstitute of Virology (NIV), Pune.
- Information Education Communication ( IEC)/Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) activities  to  disseminated  knowledge  for  prevention  and  control  through  advoca meetings, review, electronic and print media.

## Alloction   under NVBDCP

| S.    | States/UTs           | Allocation      | Allocation       | Allocation       | Allocation     |
|-------|----------------------|-----------------|------------------|------------------|----------------|
| No.   |                      | 2015- 16        | 2016- 17         | 2017- 18         | 2018- 19       |
| 1     | Andhra Prd.          | 825.00          | 728.00           | 909.95           | 1041.60 918.80 |
| 2     | Arunachal Prd. Assam | 1274.00         | 1183.00 2395.10  | 1183.00 2335.10  | 2548.09        |
| 3 4   | Bihar                | 2582.00 3540.00 | 3534.00          | 3673.50          | 1795.00        |
| 5     | Chattisgarh          | 2096.00         | 908.00           | 3364.50          | 1086.00        |
| 6     | Goa                  | 98.00           | 102              | 106.76           | 165.40         |
| 7     | Gujarat              | 1072.00         | 1100.00          | 1259.00          | 1313.00        |
| 8     | Haryana              | 255.00          | 200.00           | 52.00            | 477.00         |
| 9     | Himachal Prd.        | 104.00          | 26.00            | 45.00            | 264.00         |
| 10    | J & K                | 92.00           | 94.20            | 99.62            | 352.50         |
| 11    | Jharkhand            | 3945.00         | 3390.00          | 3370.91          | 1904.00        |
| 12    | Karnataka            | 1953.00         | 1759.00          | 970.06           | 1232.40        |
| 13    | Kerala               | 726.00          | 644.00           | 509.41           | 687.00         |
| 14    | Madhya Prd.          | 2441.00         | 2118.00          | 1657.15          | 20413.00       |
| 15    | Maharashtra          | 602.00          | 1320.00          |                  | 1104.70        |
| 16    | Manipur              | 917.00          | 1005.00          | 705.80 905.00    | 697.68         |
| 17    | Meghalaya            | 967.00          | 915.00           | 864.00           | 473.80         |
| 18    | Mizoram              | 1219.00         | 1104.00          | 1364.00          | 337.62         |
| 19 20 | Nagaland Orissa      | 1203.00 3887.00 | 1117.00 10037.00 | 1117.00 10177.00 | 534.11 994.60  |
| 21    | Punjab               | 399.00          | 402.00           | 1038.63          | 272.00         |
| 22    | Rajasthan            | 2615.00         | 2180.80          | 1388.65          | 694.00         |
| 23    | Sikkim               | 61.00           | 90.90            | 41.90            | 50.00          |
| 24    | Tamil Nadu           | 1619.00         | 1409.00          | 1410.55          | 883.70         |
| 25    | Telangana            | 3965.00         | 685.00           | 628.33           | 1549.20        |
| 26    | Tripura              | 1400.00         | 1617.00          | 1617.00          | 732.90         |
| 27    | Uttar Pradesh        | 3593.00         | 3650.00          | 3343.80          | 3350.60        |
| 28    | Uttarakhand          | 200.00          | 266.00           | 249.38           | 308.50         |
| 29    | West Bengal          | 1801.00         | 1910.00          | 1600.00          | 1807.80        |
| 30    | Delhi                | 171.00          | 169.00           | 168.17           | 204.50         |
| 31    | Puducherry           | 49.00           | 51.00            | 51.83            | 204.50         |
| 32    | A&N Islands          | 352.00          | 349.00           | 373.00           | 395.70         |
| 33    | Chandigarh           | 80.00           | 77.00            | 60.00            | 90.80          |
| 34    | D & N Haveli         | 96.00           | 107.00           | 100.00           | 147.00         |
| 35    | Daman & Diu          | 67.00           | 71.00            | 66.00            | 103.00         |
|       | Total                | 46313.00        | 46750.00         | 46847.00         | 49198.00       |

## Directorate of National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme, Delhi State/UTs wise  Death due to VBDs

## Annexure - II

| Sl. No.   | State/UT          |   MALARIA |   MALARIA | MALARIA   | MALARIA   | Dengue   | Dengue   |   Dengue | Dengue   |   JE | JE   | JE   | JE    | Kala-azar   | Kala-azar   | Kala-azar   | Kala-azar   |
|-----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|------|------|------|-------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| Sl. No.   | State/UT          |      2015 |      2016 | 2017      | 2018*     | 2015     | 2016     |     2017 | 2018*    | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2015        | 2016        | 2017        | 2018*       |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |         0 |         0 | 0 0       | 2         |          | 2        |        0 | 0        |    0 | 0    | 0    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |         7 |         2 | 0 0       | 1         | 0        |          |        0 | 0        |    2 | 0 0  |      | 0     | 0 0         |             | 0           | 0           |
| 3         | Assam             |         4 |         6 | 0 0       | 1         | 4        |          |        1 | 0        |  135 | 92   | 87   | 13    | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 4         | Bihar             |         1 |         0 | 2 0       | 0         | 0        |          |        0 | 0        |   12 | 25   | 11   | 0     | 5           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 5         | Chattisgarh       |        21 |        61 | 81 0      | 1         |          | 0        |        0 | 2        |    0 | 0    | 0    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 6         | Goa               |         1 |         0 | 1 0       | 0         |          | 0        |        0 | 0        |    0 | 0    | 0    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 7         | Gujarat           |         7 |         6 | 7 0       | 9         |          | 14       |        6 | 0        |    0 | 0    | 0    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 8         | Haryana           |         3 |         0 | 0 0       |           | 13       | 0        |        0 | 0        |    0 | 0    | 1    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |         0 |         0 | 0 0       |           | 1        | 0        |        0 | 0        |    0 | 0    | 0    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 10        | J & K             |         0 |         0 | 0 0       |           | 0        | 1        |        0 | 0        |    0 | 0    | 0    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 11        | Jharkhand         |         6 |        15 | 0 1       |           | 0        | 1        |        5 | 0        |    8 | 5    | 1    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 12        | Karnataka         |         0 |         0 | 0 0       | 9         |          | 8        |       10 | 0        |    1 | 0    | 2    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 13        | Kerala            |         4 |         2 | 2 0       |           | 25       | 13       |       37 | 14       |    1 | 0    | 0    | 1     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    |        24 |         3 | 5         | 1         | 8        | 12       |        6 | 0        |    0 | 0    | 0    | 0     | 0 0         | 0           |             | 0           |
| 15        | Maharashtra       |        59 |        26 | 20 0      |           | 23       | 33       |       65 | 1        |    0 | 1    | 0    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 16        | Manipur           |         0 |         0 | 0 0       | 0         |          | 1        |        1 | 0        |    0 | 1    | 10   | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 17        | Meghalaya         |        79 |        45 | 12 0      |           | 0        | 0        |        0 | 0        |    8 | 4    | 4    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 18        | Mizoram           |        21 |         9 | 4 0       |           | 0        | 0        |        0 | 0        |    0 | 0    | 0    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |
| 19        | Nagaland          |         3 |         0 | 1 0       |           | 1        | 0        |        0 | 0        |    0 | 0    | 2    | 0     | 0           | 0           | 0           | 0           |

| 20   | Odisha         | 80   |   77 |   24 | 2   |   2 |   11 |   6 | 0   |   2 |   42 |   0 | 0   |    | 0   | 0   | 0   |   0 |
|------|----------------|------|------|------|-----|-----|------|-----|-----|-----|------|-----|-----|----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
| 21   | Punjab         | 0    |    0 |    0 | 0   |  18 |   15 |  18 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   1 | 0   |  0 | 0   | 0   |     |   0 |
| 22   | Rajasthan      | 3    |    5 |    0 | 0   |   7 |   16 |  14 | 3   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 23   | Sikkim         | 0    |    0 |    0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   | 0   |     |   0 |
| 24   | Tamil Nadu     | 0    |    0 |    0 | 0   |  12 |    5 |  65 | 1   |   0 |    0 |   2 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 25   | Telangana      | 4    |    1 |    0 | 0   |   2 |    4 |   0 | 0   |   1 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   | 0   |     |   0 |
| 26   | Tripura        | 21   |   14 |    6 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |   4 |    1 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 27   | Uttarakhand    | 0    |    0 |    0 | 0   |   1 |    4 |   0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 28   | Uttar Pradesh0 |      |    0 |    0 | 0   |   9 |   42 |  28 | 0   |  42 |   73 |  93 | 5   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 29   | West Bengal    | 34   |   59 |   29 | 2   |  14 |   45 |  46 | 0   |  75 |   39 |  40 | 2   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 30   | A&N Islands    | 0    |    0 |    0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 31   | Chandigarh     | 1    |    0 |    0 | 0   |   1 |    0 |   0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 32   | D & N Haveli   | 0    |    0 |    0 | 0   |   0 |    2 |   0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 33   | Daman & Diu    | 0    |    0 |    0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 34   | Delhi          | 0    |    0 |    0 | 0   |  60 |   10 |  10 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
| 35   | Lakshadweep    | 0    |    0 |    0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   | 0   |     |   0 |
| 36   | Pudducherry    | 1    |    0 |    0 | 0   |   0 |    2 |   7 | 1   |   0 |    0 |   0 | 0   |  0 | 0   |     | 0   |   0 |
|      | Total          | 384  |  331 |  194 |     |   6 |  245 | 325 |     | 291 |  283 | 254 |     | 21 | 5 0 |     | 0   |   0 |

*As on May, 2018