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Are the targets adequate? MDG goals are 70% detection and 85% treatment of the detected ones. Total net missed cases for treatment will be 30% undetected? infected cases (30%) plus 15% of detected but not treated cases but known to be infectious. Is it not a medical negligence, not to treat when it can harm the patient and community? Is it ethical? Have we done like this for any infectious disease with high communicability and longer period of communicability in the past? Did we leave any small pox cases detected without attending? Why should we take a risk in leaving the known infected cases? What is the rationale behind leaving the detected infectious cases without treatment? Is there anything like herd immunity? Is it cost-effective to leave the detected cases? We have wasted our valuable resources also to detect those 15%.