Chennai: This year’s DriveSafe India programme was officially launched in Chennai ahead of World Sight Day and aims to cover an additional one lakh drivers.
Of this, eyecare needs of 50,000 commercial vehicle and truck drivers will be addressed in Tamilnadu and Karnataka and the remaining in other States.
According to a press release, despite the pandemic, Shell continued the DriveSafeIndia program in line with government regulations and safety protocols.
As part of its endeavour to continue keeping Indian roads safe, Shell has now roped in another partner, the India Vision Institute (an NGO providing access to vision testing and spectacles to the underprivileged in remote parts of India), to further expand the programme and vision testing camps in the States of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.