Why snake envenomation lacks its visibility from the priority list of health care policies in India? Why the country is still unequipped to face the problem with prime predilection? Despite its long history, why the medical system still follows century back protocols to treat envenomation? An amalgamation of factors has led to the above aforesaid crisis of snake envenomation. Problems related to production of snake antivenom, lack of research, efficacy problem with polyvalent