-PTI/ TheWire.in States such as Tripura, Uttarakhand and Mizoram have just one functional eye bank, according to data. New Delhi: Eleven states and Union Territories, including Goa and Jammu and Kashmir, have no functional eye banks, according to official data. Doctors, however, underlined that such banks alone don’t serve the purpose as there is an increasing demand for Eye donors, especially in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has exacerbated the situation. According to...
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How No Food Waste works to redistribute surplus food to the needy in Tamil Nadu -Nahla Nainar
-The Hindu The world sits up and takes notice when surplus food feeds the hungry, instead of ending up in the bin, say volunteers of No Food Waste How often do we think of surplus food that has gone untouched at a wedding banquet, restaurant or office canteen. What happens to the leftovers? Coimbatore resident G Padmanabhan and his friends Sudhakar Mohan and N Balaji began No Food Waste (NFW) in 2014 with...
More »Open an app, store blood -KM Rakesh
-The Telegraph Bangalore: A mobile app that enables donors to save blood for future use by maintaining accounts was launched today by an ad agency that has joined hands with the Indian Red Cross Society's Karnataka branch. Possibly the world's first such project, an app called Blood Banking on iOS and Android platforms was launched with an eye on the younger generation that is more attuned to smart technologies for anything from...
More »Touched by sight of barefoot schoolkids, Jalore collector takes up cause -Ashish Mehta
-The Times of India JAIPUR: Moved by the sight of some students coming to school barefoot in the chilly December weather, Jalore collector Jitendra Kumar Soni, a young IAS officer, started an innovative scheme aimed at providing free shoes to downtrodden and deprived children. Christened as 'Charan Paduka Yojna', the scheme aims at distributing shoes to nearly 25,000 school kids before the Republic Day this year. Soni, who hails from Dhanasar village near...
More »Restoring eyesight, a civil engineer’s unusual passion -KM Dayashankar
-The Hindu Kola Anna Reddy's determination to provide eyesight to the visually challenged has seen him donning the role of an ophthalmologist surgeon as well. KARIMNAGAR: He is a civil engineer by profession. But his grit and determination to provide eyesight to visually challenged persons saw him donning the role of an ophthalmologist surgeon also. Kola Anna Reddy, a senior member of the Lions Club, joined the movement in 2003 and become the...
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