World Sight Day Celebrations

Why VISION 2020 - The Right to Sight Initiatives?

The global burden of blindness is 50 million in year 2000. This will grow to 75 million by the year 2020 unless special efforts are taken to arrest & reverse this trend.

Towards this purpose, a global initiative called 'Vision 2020 Right to sight" was launched as a collaborative movement by WHO (representing governments) and IAPB (representing International Non profit NGO organizations) in 1999. India is committed to reduce the burden of avoidable blindness by the year 2020 by adopting strategies advocated for Vision 2020. To align and collate efforts of different sectors and organizations towards the National Plan of Action there emerges a stronger need for a representative forum in parallel to the global body to achieve the goals of vision 2020 in India. There are an estimated 12 million blind people in the country. Over 90% of the blind live in Rural Areas. Because of the increase in life expectancy and the projected increase in country population this number is likely to rise to more than 18 million by the year 2020 if current trends continue. Blindness is mainly a problem of developing countries like ours, but a problem, which could be avoided in up to 80% of cases.

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Programme Schedule: 10/10/07 11/10/07

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