It has been shown that most of the infectious TB cases in a rural community in south India are at least conscious of the symptoms of the disease; about three-fourths of them are worried about their sickness; and, about half of them actively seek treatment for their symptoms at rural medical institutions. The existing facilities deal with only a very small fraction of even these patients who are actively seeking treatment. India‘s NTP has been designed to mobilise the existing resources in order to offer suitable diagnostic and treatment services to those who already have a felt-need. India‘s health administrators have to initiate suitable administrative and organizational reorientation of existing services to satisfy these already existing felt needs. Simultaneous social and economic growth will help in developing the epidemiological strategy and the rise in living standard itself may have a significant impact in controlling TB.