Rotary Peventable Blindness - RID 3291
Channel: Binod Khaitan
Date: 2011-06-14

Project Rotary International District 3291 - From Darkness to LIGHT.
Justification for community need:  One person in every 30 suffer from Preventable Blindness in India. Population of West Bengal is 75 Million. Thus approx. 2.5 Million suffer from  Preventable Blindness At present only 40,000 people are estimated to be operated yearly. Every year there is an additional 50,000 operable patients. Thus there is an increasing backlog every year. The Target to reach 50,000 people by 2020 to give LIGHT !