... allocation of resources and evaluating efficiency of anti -tuberculosis programmes. The WHO commissioned a study on the subject and subsequently published a review of the global burden of tuberculosis, ... some of the issues and providing an estimate of the tuberculosis burden in India4. It is presently intended to discuss some of the problems here, in arriving at the estimate of the tuberculosis ... On the other hand, the number of 1,30,60,000 taken as the burden of radiologically active cases is a gross overestimate. To consider 4.0 and 16.0 per 1000 as the prevalence of bacillary and...