A pilot project aimed at providing basic eye testing facilities and vision correction by training rural youth was successful and the programme will now be extended to other parts of the country its organisers said on Thursday. The Eye Mitra programme run by a private firm engaged in the export of vision correction lenses and a non-governmental organisation was tested in the Harpur village of Sultanpur district Uttar Pradesh. An estimated 500 million people in India are in need of vision correction a majority of them in rural areas the organisers of the Eye Mitra programme said. 'India and China
