{"id":16881,"date":"2016-10-18T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T10:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16881"},"modified":"2016-10-18T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T10:53:28","slug":"world-sight-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-sight-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"World Sight Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: 2016 World Sight Day was celebrated on which of the following day?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 14 October<br \/>\n(b) 13 October<br \/>\n(c) 16 October<br \/>\n(d) 12 October<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 13 October 2016; World Sight Day 2016 was celebrated across the world.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The theme for this year is \u2018Stronger Together\u2019.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is celebrated to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to World Health Organization(WHO) approximately 285 million people worldwide live with low vision and blindness.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of these, 39 million people are blind and 246 million have moderate or severe visual impairment<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">VISION 2020 is a global initiative that aims to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iapb.org\/wsd16\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.iapb.org\/wsd16<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/blindness\/partnerships\/vision2020\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.who.int\/blindness\/partnerships\/vision2020\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: 2016 World Sight Day was celebrated on which of the following day? (a) 14 October (b) 13 October (c) 16 October (d) 12 October Ans: (b) Related facts: On 13 October 2016; World Sight Day 2016 was celebrated across the world. The theme for this year is \u2018Stronger Together\u2019. World Sight Day (WSD) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[2342,2340],"class_list":["post-16881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ydw-snews","tag-day-week","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}