A free rural satellite centre of SSN was inaugurated by the then Hon'ble Governor of Assam, Shri L.N.Mishra on 26-03-1996 at Bonda near Guwahati.It has adopted 47 villages under it. SKSHEF has plans to establish more rural satellite centres to render free and comprehensive eye care service to rural people of north east region(NER) through survey,counseling and medical treatment. Patients requiring surgery are bought to hospital (SSN) and after cure they are again sent back to their homes.The idea behind is to control the curable blindness in adopted villages.Following cataract surgery INTRAOCULAR LENS (IOL) implantation is mandatory to all free cataract cases. Morover SSN charitable organisations like Ramkrishna Mission, health camps organized by different organisations and District Blindness Control Society.Total expenditure incurred till date for maintaining the free service is more than Rs. 4.8 Crores.