According to the health ministry set up to expand National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) into a top institute for communicable ailments on the outline of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, by March 2013.

It is felt that subsequent to the determined Rs382.41-crore promotion, the institute shall be in a improved arrangement to offer leadership in the region of public health, fortify ability of states and union territories in ailment eruption examination and rejoinder. It will also be superior geared up to handle bio-terrorism and act in response to public health crisis of international fear.

NCDC shall have latest infrastructure just like wet and dry, bio-safety level 2 and BSL-3 labs together with state-of-the-art equipment.

Setup in 1909 as Central Bureau of Malaria at Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, and the institute was transferred to Delhi in 2009 and renamed NCDC.

It is a base of brilliance for constructing ability for examination of outburst -prone transmissible diseases and offers technical know-how in the domain of disease deterrence and control. On the other hand, it has not experienced an improvement for decades and from time to time falls less of satisfying its mounting consent to speak to up-and-coming and reemerging ailments.