Lok Kalyan Samiti

About Us - Lok Kalyan Samiti

Lok Kalyan Samiti is a non-profit, apolitical voluntary organization based in New Delhi and registered under the Societies Act, 1861. Lok Kalyan Samiti functions from two centres at Chakkarpur (Gurgaon) and Nand Nagri (Slum Resettlement area) in northeast Delhi, in addition to its main office located in the heart of Delhi near ITO.

Established in 1952, it is engaged in various social causes and welfare activities, which include healthcare, remedial education and vocational training, Called ‘Poor man’s Eye Hospital’, LKS eye care programme equipped with a 40-bed hospital and OPD facility is one of the pioneering Cataract elimination efforts in the country and is going strong for last 40 years. LKS Provides completely free service to patients for Cataract Surgery including prescribed medicines and glasses. According to some estimates Cataract accounts for nearly 75% of the preventable blindness and there may be 12 million in India alone at any given time. In this context, LKS ‘s effort for poor and needy is a model for entire developing world.