The KIIT and the Rotary International will set up an eye hospital in the Kandhamal Parliamentary constituency soon. The hospital will start functioning within a year and treat patients entirely free of cost, said Rotary International president Shekhar Mehta during his visit to KIIT and KISS on October 30.
He visited all campuses of KIIT and units of KISS. Speaking at KIIT Knowledge Tree Lecture Series, he said that the simple practice "each one, teach one" can remove illiteracy from the country.
The aims of KIIT and Rotary are similar, he added.
Mehta was declared the Global Goodwill Ambassador of Art of Giving. As an ambassador, he will promote Art of Giving by spreading the message of ‘kind and happiness’ globally. On the occasion, KIIT and KISS founder and Kandhamal MP Dr Achyuta Samanta was pinned as Rotarian by the President, Rotary International.
Thanking Mehta, Dr Samanta said, "We have a good relationship for the last so many years. Mehta is also a well-wisher of KIIT and KISS."
