India Vision Institute (IVI) is a not-for-profit nongovernmental organization (NGO) with the vision to Augment Primary Eye Care Capacity of India. This we do by providing access to primary eye care for underprivileged and rural Indians and through advancing the optometry sector, awareness generation, capacity building, advocacy, and leadership development.

For prevention of avoidable blindness, we work through timely intervention in providing access to vision screenings and free spectacles in disadvantaged communities and remote areas. Our Eye See & I Work and Eye See & I Learn campaigns reach constituencies where services are lacking and most required – notably adults and children.

IVI has undertaken over 12500+ vision screening programs in 25 states across India. Over 1.7 Million individuals from the underprivileged communities have been screened.

Optometrists are in the frontline of vision care services delivery. IVI works to upgrade their skills and build capacity as well as equip them to cope with challenges in their careers. Till now, IVI has conducted 1500+ capacity building workshops and seminars, 15+ National and International conferences, 200+ research grants and travel grants, and 10+ awareness programmes benefitting over 15,000 optometry professionals, including practitioners, educators, and students. We organise online advocacy, talks, panel discussions, education, skill enhancement, and leadership development programs. 

The Indian Optometric Association (IOA) represents approximately 12,000 doctors of optometry, optometry students and paraoptometric assistants and technicians. Optometrists serve patients in nearly 6,500 communities across the country, and in 3,500 of those communities are the only eye doctors. Doctors of optometry provide two-thirds of all primary eye care in the India.

Vision Mission

Our vision is to provide world class optometry services making high quality eye and vision care accessible to all eye, and the rehabilitation of conditions of the visual system for people across India. In order to achieve our vision, our mission is to establish Optometry as an Independent profession in India whilst facilitating the development of optometry around all over India and support optometrists in promoting eye health and vision care as a human right through advocacy, education, policy development and humanitarian outreach. 

IOA Objectives

Our objectives, as defined in our Constitution, is the worldwide/India improvement and conservation of human vision.

 These include:

1. Enhancement and development of primary eye and vision care by optometrists.

2. Promotion of high standards of education and practice by optometrists including by the promotion of international co-ordination of optometrists.

3. Provision of support to aid programs directed at the provision of eye and vision care to societies in need.

4. Promotion of the advancement of the science of optometry.

5. To adopt the definition of optometry and optometrist of WCO/WHO.

6. Advocacy for optometry council as Statuary regulatory body under Indian parliament Act instead of any other Act like Company Act etc.

7. Up gradation of optometry education from diploma in optometry to Bachelor in optometry four years, Master and PhD courses.

8. Unification of optometrist designation and one nomenclature of degree as Bachelor in optometry as per guideline of University Grant commission.

9. Reduce the number of blind persons from 80% avoidable blindness (due to refractive errors and back lock refractive errors from 24% to 0% in India by the optometry services.

10. Implement the guidelines under Master plan 2014 -2019 of WCO and WHO to reduce the burden of refractive errors which is more than 43% and become the first cause of avoidable blindness worldwide.