1The present paper describes certain economic aspects of TB in India, but does not attempt to combine them in a model. The estimated direct costs (beds, clinics, BCG campaign, drugs, private practitioners, after-care, social welfare etc. and research, training and administration) and indirect costs (disablement, premature death) of TB services of all kinds in India, based on known number of physical units multiplied by estimated average cost, have been calculated. These calculations demonstrated that the TB control programme which the NTP was proposing, was not substantially more expensive to the nation than existing TB services. It was concluded that a far higher government share would be economical and that district programmes utilising and promoting the development of basic, GHS would also be economical.