Restoring Vision, Restoring Hope
A timeline of Project Drishti
9th July, 2001
Inception of Project Drishti
July 2001
1st Camp – Gauribidanuru (800 patients screened)
1st Mega Camp – Bangalore (2540 patients screened)
Conducted 10,000 surgeries in 1st year
200 Record cataract surgeries
conducted in a single day – Chitradurga
February 2002
100th Camp – Bangalore
(1800 patients screened)
September 2003
500th Camp – Nandagudi ( 230 patients screened)
2003
Rajyotsava Award (first non-kannadiga to win this award)
2004
First international camp in Cambodia
April 2005
1000 Camp – Bangalore (1600 patients screened)
2000 Camp – Shikaripura,
conducted 100,000th surgery
2009
Inauguration of Surana Drishti Eye Bank
2010
10,000,000
patients screened
2018
20,000,000
patients screened