When India reported its last wild polio virus case from West Bengal in 2011, Rajasthan had already succeeded in eliminating the virus.
Rajasthan saw its last three polio cases in 2009, though it reported 41 cases even in 2002. The decline began that year and the number fell to four in 2006. The State reported the highest number of 63 cases in 1998.
The Southeast Asia Region of the World Health Organisation, which includes India, has been certified polio-free on March 24, 2014. India achieved the goal of polio eradication as no case has been reported for more than three years in a row after the last case was reported on January 13, 2011. On February 24, 2012, the WHO removed India from the list of countries with active endemic wild polio virus transmission.
Over 24 lakh vaccinators and 1.5 lakh supervisors were involved in the successful implementation of the Pulse Polio Programme, dubbed as one of the biggest public health programmes in the world.
