<span style="color: #222222;">Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar has said, anti-microbial resistance, AMR, is a silent and invisible pandemic that cannot be overshadowed by other competing public health priorities. Ms Pawar was speaking at the Ministerial Plenary panel of the Third Global High-Level Conference on Anti-Microbial Resistance in Muscat, Oman today.<br />''<br />''Highlighting the steps taken by India in battling AMR, the Minister stated that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Indian government has taken various initiatives to address the challenge of AMR.<br />''<br />''She also highlighted that countering AMR features prominently on the national health agenda. Ms Pawar mentioned that various initiatives undertaken by way of awareness and capacity building, laboratory strengthening, surveillance, infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship and research on newer drugs, diagnostics and innovations have garnered political will at the highest level.  India organized an AMR conference in 2016 at New Delhi.</span><br />