15/05/2025
Under National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment (NPCBVI), a Mission Mode Cataract Surgery campaign (Netra Jyoti Abhiyan) was launched (2022-2025) to clear backlog of eligible cataract cases by allotting yearly targets to each State and Union Territory. For the FY-2022-23, a target of 75,00,000 cataract surgery was kept against which 83,44,824 cataract surgeries were done. This drive is a major step taken to reduce the prevalence of avoidable blindness to 0.25% by 2025.
