‘International NGO Vision 2020: Right to Sight India’ has assigned the task to organize Sight Care Awareness Week and World Sight Day this year to Sant Hirdaram Nagar based Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital.
During this event Sight Care Awareness week will be celebrated from October 4 to 11. World Sight Day will be observed on October 11. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan will flag off a Sight care awareness rally from his Shyamla Hills based his official residence on the same day at 7:30 am. Mayor Alok Sharma and MLA Rameshwar Sharma will also be present on the occasion. Main function of World Sight Day will be organized at Sant Hirdaram Auditorium of Sant Nagar where senior office bearers of NGOs, senior eye surgeons, optometrists, paramedical staff of Sewa Sadan and a large gathering of school students will participate in the rally as well as in the main programme.
On the first day of Sight Care Awareness week, a painting competition on this subject was organized at Navnidh School of Sant Nagar where 78 students of 15 schools of Bhopal and nearby places participated.
This programme was jointly inaugurated by Hero Gyanchandani, LC Janiyani, Principals of MGP and Navnidh Schools Ajay Sharma and Manish Jain respectively. In this competition Shruti Sharma of Girls Higher Sec School of Jahangirabad, Bhopal, secured first position. Second prize was secured by Prakarti Rathore of Blue Bird Higher Sec. School, Sehore. Similarly, third prize was won by Atishay Jain of MGP School of Sant Nagar. These students will be given their prizes in the main programme of World Sight Day on October 11.