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.

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