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Year 2025 is the Centre's deadline for achieving the 'Zero TB' target, but data released by BMC on the eve of World Tuberculosis Day shows a worrying upward swing in the number of TB cases registered in the 2016-17 period. While eight per cent has been recorded as the rise in TB cases overall in the city in 2017, drug-resistant TB cases shot up to 4,891 last year from 4,374 in 2016 - an increase of 11 per cent.