Kanti Velugu evoking massive response

Hyderabad: Chief minister K CRs pet concept Kanti Velugu is proving a major success in the second phase. Rural folk particularly women , old age people and farm laborers are taking to the second phase Kanti Velugu programme in large numbers as the eye vision testing process picks up pace in almost all the parts of the Telangana state.
Like in all other popular schemes of the Telangana state government women are keen on taking to the test process initiated in the KCR novel concept on a large scale.
The Second phase Kanti Velugu programme launched on January 18 by the chief minister KCR in Khammam has been a grand success till date with people flocking in on the camps with utmost interest. On the first day itself the camps organised in the entire state have attracted about 1.60 lakh patients and the tests were conducted on all the enrolled i n522 urban camps and 978 rural camps spread across the state. On the first day of the camp the eye testing teams have identified 70256 patients with certain eye realted ailments and 37046 patients were provided reading glasses instantaneously.
For the remaining 33210 patients the prescribed spectacles would be provided in due course. About fifteen thousand eye testing experts would be deployed throughout the state for accomplishing the herculean task that corrects the eye sight of the needy.
In the Hyderabad urban limits 1500 teams were deployed and these teams would undertake the eye screening and vision test for all the citizens irrespective of their age group.
The achievement index says that a total of 406 gram panchayaths spread across the state were covered in the last one week camps and vision screening in 981 more villages is in nprogress. A total of 12.79 lakh persons including 6.79 lakh women were covered in the testing process till date. 625 transgenders were also covered in the screening process till Friday. A total of three lakh reading glasses were provided in the camps and 2.05 lakh patients were identified with vision problems, according to the test reports.
Two such cases administered in Kethepalli and Siricilla reflected how the governments vision tests are proving handy for the needy and these incidents indicate the success that the government visualizes in the rural parts of the Telangana state.