Chandigarh, July 12 -- Haryana health minister Arti Singh Rao on Friday launched "Ujjwal Drishti Haryana Abhiyan" under which free spectacles will be provided to school children and citizens above 45 years of age to undergo near vision correction.

The campaign is being run under the national programme for control of blindness and visual impairment. Under this, more than 1.4 lakh spectacles will be distributed simultaneously through 22 district hospitals, 50 sub-divisional hospitals and 122 community health centres of the state.

The health minister said that the eyes of about 21 lakh students studying in 14,267 government schools will be examined and free glasses will be distributed among 40,000 needy students.

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