Overview

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on catalysing the private sector in a pan-India movement on TB-free workplaces. It is a three-year long campaign that involves multiple stakeholders engaged across awareness and sensitisation, screening and treatment. CII, through this campaign, will push the mandate of a TB-free workplace among its corporate membership spanning across all states in India. As part of this campaign.

About CII

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the development of India, partnering industry, Government and civil society, through advisory and consultative processes.

For 125 years, CII has been working on shaping India’s development journey and, this year, more than ever before, it will continue to proactively transform Indian industry’s engagement in national development.

CII is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led and industry-managed organization, with about 9100 members from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs, and an indirect membership of over 300,000 enterprises from 288 national and regional sectoral industry bodies.

CII charts change by working closely with Government on policy issues, interfacing with thought leaders, and enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and business opportunities for industry through a range of specialized services and strategic global linkages. It also provides a platform for consensus-building and networking on key issues.

Extending its agenda beyond business, CII assists industry to identify and execute corporate citizenship programmes. Partnerships with civil society organizations carry forward corporate initiatives for integrated and inclusive development across diverse domains including affirmative action, livelihoods, diversity management, skill development, empowerment of women, and sustainable development, to name a few.

With the Theme for 2020-21 as Building India for a New World: Lives, Livelihood, Growth, CII will work with Government and industry to bring back growth to the economy and mitigate the enormous human cost of the pandemic by protecting jobs and livelihoods.

With 68 offices, including 10 Centres of Excellence, in India, and 9 overseas offices in Australia, China, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Singapore, UAE, UK, and USA, as well as institutional partnerships with 394 counterpart organizations in 133 countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry and the international business community.

Mission

CII will aggregate various initiatives, innovations and linkages necessary to give a fillip to the national mandate of reducing TB prevalence significantly by 2025.

SENSITIZATION

Awareness building for a diverse cohort that includes employees, employers and medical practitioners and other specialists involved in managing and caring for Tuberculosis

SCREENING

Develop public-private partnership (PPP) models that address challenges related to local infrastructure and finances and provide referral linkages that can enable timely screening

TREATMENT

Strategic use of existing workforce, MRs, available at pharmaceutical companies to bridge the gap between standard treatment guidelines by the Government of India, WHO & private practitioners

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