• The National Action Plan for dog Mediated Rabies Elimination (NAPRE) has been drafted by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in consultation with the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying.
  
• NAPRE’s approach for rabies elimination is based on recommendations of various international agencies such as WHO, OIE, and the Global Alliance of Rabies Control (GARC).
• It is based on 5 major pillars – political will, sustained funding, intersectoral planning, coordination and review, community planning, and operational research.

Rabies- Status in India

• Rabies is a vaccine-preventable viral disease that occurs in more than 150 countries and territories. Dogs are the primary source of the vast majority of human rabies deaths, contributing up to 99% of all rabies transmissions to humans.
• The disease is preventable, however low awareness among people results in fatalities. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a dog bite claims the lives of more than 55,000 people each year, mostly in Asia and Africa.