evidence: Contact investigation is an active case finding strategy to increase detection of Tuberculosis (TB) and a key component of TB control programs. The household contacts are at a higher risk of exposure than members of the general population. The information on the value and yield of household contact screening and the approaches used in high incidence settings like India is limited. [...] Contact screening is a key component in national tuberculosis (TB) programs and is an active case finding strategy to identify more TB cases. It involves systematic screening of the contacts of known TB patients. It ensures early detection of disease and prompt initiation of treatment thus reducing the disease burden, the risk of TB transmission and poor treatment outcomes [1]. [...] This study reports the results of screening of household contacts of smear-positive HIV sero-negative pulmonary TB index cases. The overall yield for active tuberculosis cases was 5.3% which was low among children <15 years with 1.5%. However the yield for new TB cases among contacts with abnormal x-ray was high (41%). Many studies have shown that active case finding among household contacts yields substantially more TB cases than passive case detection [12,13,14,15]. The yield for active TB case finding through contact investigations ranged from 0 to 6.9% among household contacts in high burden countries [16, 17]. The overall yield for active screening was 5.3% in our study which is less when compared to the findings of a similar study conducted in Chhattisgarh, India with an yield of 9.0% [18].