Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 23: Sant Nirankari Mission, in the memory of Baba Hardev Singh Ji, today organized free eye-check up camps, cleanliness and plantation drives across India.
At the eye camps, patients were provided free eye checkup service and the ones with cataract will receive surgeries at Government hospitals. Sant Nirankari Mission also provided free medication and spectacles to those in need.
In Jammu, the camp was inaugurated by Divisional Commissioner Jammu Dr Raghav Langer who appreciated the social activities of Nirankari Mission. About 700 patients were screened in the camp and 150 of them were diagnosed for cataract surgeries.
Ajit Singh, Zonal Incharge SNM Jammu said that under the aegis of Baba Hardev Singh Ji, Sant Nirankari Mission has kept the world spiritually tied and has spread the message of love and compassion aiming to create a world without walls. In the present times, he added, Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj is carrying the baton forwarded with the same message.
Team of doctors in the camp included Dr Satish Gupta, Prof & HOD Eye GMC Jammu along with 5 doctors and one technician and Dr Neerupama Dogra along with two Technicians from Govt Hospital Gandhi Nagar under the supervision of Dr Perupkar Singh.
Sant Nirankari Mission also planted 50,000 saplings today and vowed to continuously take care of the planted saplings, in order to help reduce pollution levels and with the larger aim of helping increase the natural levels of oxygen in surroundings, with these trees.