r. YSR Kanti Velugu Programme - - Screening and Prescription of Spectacles - mobilization of abnormal Primary school children to school complexes - Orders Issued

All the District Educational Officers & Ex- officio District Project Coordinators

and Additional Project Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha, Andhra Pradesh are here by

informed that the Hon'ble Chief Minister has Launched the Dr. YSR Kanti Velugu

Programme on 10.10.2019 to provide comprehensive Eye care services to the people

in the state and the same to be implemented in 6 phases. In this regard, phase -l

and Phase -II is intended to Screen all Government and Private School children by

providing Spectacles and treatment to the referral cases. Phase - I & II has been

com pleted successfully.

In 1st Phase the Health and Famlly Welfare depaftment were conducted

primary basic Screening to 66,75,280 School Children across the State from

10.10.2019 to 16.10.2019. After Conducting Primary eye examination in the 1st

Phase, 4,36,979 Students were found with defective. In znd phase 4,9s,312

Students were undergone Secondary Screening test from 1st Novemeber, 2019 to

15th February,2o2o. Among them z,4opl} students were found normal, LAgplL

students were Prescribed Spectacles, 46,323 Students were highly defected and

were referred for the further treatment. So far, 8 surgeries performed in the State,

i.e., 3 in Visakhapatnam, one in Prakasam and 4 in Kurnool District.