A particular morning of November 2020 began like any other, with N Uday Reddy, Deputy Superintendent of Police, conducting a routine field visit. The 30-year-old officer was in the tribal hamlet of Jamda village in the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) area, as part of community relations development.
During the visit, an elderly person walked up to him with a written application. The paper carried a request seeking medical care for 20 people in the area who had lost their vision due to cataract and other eye ailments. The request took precedence, as the remote villages are cut off from urban areas, making it difficult for them to access proper healthcare.
What began as an endeavour to help these 20 villagers has now scaled up to benefit around 300 in the past two months. Moreover, Reddy, who is from Utnoor in Adilabad district, has taken the task to help treat these elderly people out of his own expense.
“I, along with other subordinates, make frequent visits to 552…