Acknowledgement

The Guidance Document for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme for People affected with Tuberculosis at Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis is an initiative by Central TB Division (CTD) and Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis (RBIPMT), New Delhi, the Center of Excellence for DR-TB care. The guidelines have been developed as the end product of series of consultations and meetings of the working committee held under the chairperson of Dr Manasi Anand, Director RBIPMT. 
The work on this document was guided and supported by Dr Sanjay Kumar Mattoo, Joint Commissioner and Addl DDG (TB), CTD. We would also like to acknowledge Dr Malik Parmar (NPO, WHO India), Dr Jyoti Jaju (Director Programmes, The Union), Dr Bhavin Vadera (Senior Health Advisor, USAID), Dr Sandeep Chauhan (National Consultant, CTD) and Dr. Manu Mathew (Deputy Director Programmes) for their guidance. We also acknowledge USAID supported The Union led iDEFEAT TB Project for co-ordination and technical assistance.

We express our gratitude to the eminent technical experts involved in the development of the document (alphabetical Order) Dr Anuj Bhatnagar (Head Department of Respiratory Medicine, RBIPMT), Dr Anil Choudhary (Senior Pulmonologist, RBIPMT), Dr Ashwani Khanna (NTEP Advisor, Delhi), Dr B.K Vashishat (STO, Delhi), Dr Bhoomika Varshney (Department of Yoga, RBIPMT), Dr Rakesh Kumar (Physiotherapist, RBIPMT), Dr Rakesh P.S (Senior Technical Advisor, The Union), Dr. Sanjeev Nair (Government Medical College, Thrissur), Dr Shruti Sasastrabudhe (Symbiosis, Pune), Dr Sunalini Saini (Senior Physiotherapist, RBIPMT) Dr Sunita Kujur (CMO, RBIPMT), Dr Vishal Bansal (Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi), Dr Vaishali  (Dietician, RBIPMT), and Dr Yatin Dholakia (Medical Research, Mumbai). Writing of the document was coordinated by Dr Priyanka Bindroo (Former National Consultant, CTD), Dr Meera Bhatia (Technical Advisor, The Union) and Dr Mayank Mittal (National Consultant, CTD).