Rotary club of talegaon dabhade arrange pulse polio camp in PHC intalegaon dabhade Tremendous progress has been made since polio eradication activities were first introduced in 1995. India is now recording the lowest levels of polio virus transmission ever, and is poised to completely interrupt transmission in the very near future. From the beginning of the polio eradication initiative, India has been the world’s largest polio endemic country. Before the introduction of National Immunization Days (NIDs) in 1995, an estimated 35,000 children were paralysed by polio in India each year. Significant reductions in cases were seen mainly as a result of the implementation of NIDs in the following years, but in 2002, 1600 cases were reported in a major outbreak that originated in western Uttar Pradesh (UP) and spread into many other states most of which had been polio free for more than one year