For the past year or so, the FOSS has been advocating the need to make notification of snake bites mandatory. “By rough estimates, we can say that there are 66,000 snake bite cases annually in India. But we do not have any concrete idea of the exact prevalence of snake bite cases in each State,” says FOSS Secretary Avinash
The decision is also part of the recently launched "National Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Snakebite Envenoming from India by 2030" (NAPSE) in consultation with relevant ministries and stakeholders
