Ekta Niketan
EKTA NIKETAN is a TB centre in the middle of a village in India where a group of villagers diagnose, treat and advise TB patients, and are skilled to keep records just as in an institution in a city - a TB centre unlike other TB centres. Ekta Niketan is a community TB project in a remote tribal area of India where primary health care does not reach villages. The TB centre was founded by Janet Ganguli, a British nurse, who lived and worked in a remote village in Jharkhand in mid-70s. She trained village health workers and set up this centre in 1983. The work is now carried out by the villagers themselves.