Laying eyewear optic fibre to make 400 mn specs per year: Lenskart's Bansal

As part of that strategy, the SoftBank-backed firm is setting up the world's largest eyewear manufacturing plant in Bhiwadi, a city in Rajasthan

Peyush Bansal is passionate about running and eyeglasses. He has a personal collection of over 100 pairs of spectacles and wears some of them during his early morning 15-km run. These include his favourite sky blue transparent wayfarer eyewear that he wore on the reality television series Shark Tank India. 

“It has an odd colour. But after I wore it on Shark Tank, it became the most popular colour and the specs went out of stock,” said Bansal, founder and chief executive officer of eyewear company Lenskart, in an interview. “The biggest difference between us and other companies is that