The National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment (NPCB&VI) — currently renamed NPCB&VI under NHM — set a vision 2020 target for cataract surgical rate (CSR) in India. The target CSR was:

• A 2,000 cataract surgeries per million population per year
• B 5,000 cataract surgeries per million population per year
• C 6,000 cataract surgeries per million population per year ✓
• D 10,000 cataract surgeries per million population per year

Explanation

The Vision 2020: The Right to Sight India programme set a target CSR of 6,000 cataract surgeries per million population per year to eliminate avoidable blindness from cataract in India. India's actual CSR has grown to approximately 5,500–6,500 in recent years, making it one of the highest-volume cataract surgery programmes globally. CSR of 2,000 is the WHO minimum threshold. A target of 10,000 has been suggested for some higher-burden states.

Reference: Khurana Comprehensive Ophthalmology, 7th ed.

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