India Registers Landmark Progress in Organ Donation & Transplantation: NOTTO at the Helm of a National Transformation

• NOTTO (National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation) is the apex body under the Directorate General of Health Services, Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, coordinating organ procurement, allocation and registry under the National Organ Transplant Programme (NOTP).
• India is now the 3rd largest transplanting country globally by absolute numbers, with transplants rising from <5,000 (2013) to ~20,000 (2025) — a fourfold jump.
• High UPSC salience: intersects GS-II (health governance, statutory bodies), GS-III (S&T, bioethics) and GS-IV (ethics of donation, commercialisation).