The Central Leprosy Teaching and Research Institute (CLT & RI), Chengalpattu was established in 1955 by the Government of India by taking over Lady Wellington Leprosy Sanatorium establish in 1924. Later, in 1974, Govt. Of India had made CLT & RI as a subordinate office of the Directorate General Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare with an objective to provide diagnostic, treatment and referral services to leprosy patients , trained manpower development for leprosy, control/elimination, beside research on various aspects of leprosy and its control.

It has separate wings of Epidemiology and statistics, Clinical, Medicine, Microbiology and Biochemistry laboratories with Animal House Facilities, Surgery and Physiotherapy. This Institute caters services to both indoor and out patients. The hospital has a bed capacity of 124 patients. The Institute serves the following objectives:

RLTRI, Raipur establish in the year 1979 with the aim to provide training research and treatment for the leprosy affected persons.

The Institute acts as the Regional Office of Health and Family Welfare (ROHFW) for the state of Chhattisgarh to monitor various National Health Programs including NLEP at state and district level.

Technical supervision of NLEP activities in the 8 districts: During the 8 years were covered for assessment of the NLEP programmes, during the visit to the district hospital. 32 CHC, 43 PHC and 38 SHC were visited and suggestions for improvement and to bridge the gaps noticed during visit were given to the concerned districts.

Regional Leprosy Training and Research Institute, Raipur has been established in the year 1979 with the objective to provide specialized treatment to patients of Leprosy, training to various categories of Medical Personnel viz.programme officers (DLOs), Medical Officers, Para Medical workers etc. and Operational Research.

RLTRI, Raipur is having 50 bedded hospital providing OPD and IPD services to leprosy patients. This is one of the central government institute providing DPMR services including physiotherapy services and reconstructive surgeries to leprosy patients. The institute provides technical support to ten states, which has been allocated by CLD pertaining to NLEP implementation. Also officers from institute undertake supportive supervision and monitoring visits to the different districts of Chhattisgarh state for NLEP.

Along with this, institute has been assigned additional responsibility of RoHFW since 2005. So the institute provides technical support to Chhattisgarh state and also officers of the institute undertake supportive supervisory visits to the different districts of state for monitoring other National Health programmes of public health importance.

Establish the year 1977, the Institute has a 50 beded hospital and works as a referral center for management difficult to diagnose leprosy cases and problematic, complicated and intractable cases of reaction and ulcers. Surgical procedures are carried out regularly and RCS (reconstructive Surgery ) camps have been done in the past . It also works as a nodal training and research center for the cause of leprosy elimination.

Regional Leprosy Training and Research Institute , Gouripur, Bankura , is a 50 beded leprosy hospital set up by Govt. Of India in 1984 with the objectives as mentioned below:

To create sufficient trained manpower of different categories including Medical Officers , for better implementation of NLEP in different Indian states, especially, of the North-Eastern state to eradicate/ eliminate leprosy and

The institute is located at a village named Gauripur which is well connected with the district town bankura (12 Kms), Kolkata city (240 Kms) Durgapur town (56 Kms) kharagpur Jn. (130 Kms).