The focus of this paper is to make known the extensive incidence of TB in India in the early sixties. Various prevailing factors such as a lack of sufficient anti-TB clinics that are properly equipped and adequately staffed, unsatisfactory housing conditions and Government efforts to counter TB, non-availability of sufficient treatment drugs and lack of patients’ access to these drugs, have contributed to the high prevalence of TB. To overcome the huge problem, it is recommended that voluntary bodies and individuals should work, in addition to the Government, to strengthen the campaign against TB. Particularly, TB workers could help in strengthening voluntary TB Associations in the country, so that these Associations can really form the people’s movement against TB and fill the lack that exists at the moment between anti-TB schemes and the individual patient.