Mr. Ashok Mahindru's Vision for bringing Vision to the blind

Mr.  Ashok Mahindru’s father Late Mr. Y. P. Mahindru founder member in the group started a school in 1959, named Arya Kanya Vidyalya in gurgaon. The school presently has 825 students most of them are getting free education, books & uniform as per the guidance of Mr. Ashok Mahindru.

Arya Veer Netra Chikitsalya, committed to eye care was started as weekly dispensary and grew to become daily dispensary and now under the leadership of Mr. Ashok Mahindru has become a full fledged 12 bed hospital with operation theatre, 9 doctors and other para-medical staff performing almost 1000 cataract and other surgeries and 3000 opds in a year.

Mr. Ashok Mahindru leads these initiatives under Mahindru Charitable Trust which is funded by the members of Mahindru family and provides financial support to various NGO in eye care. The trust is decided to enlarge the footprint of awareness campaigns for donation of eyes.

In 2005, Y. P. Mahindru eye bank and Cornea Transplant unit was setup at Niramaya charitable trust, an  NGO founded and run by professionals. Y. P. Mahindru niramaya  Eye bank provides cornea transplants free of cost. Niramaya Charitable Trust runs 10 rural eye care centres to provide primary eye care. The transplants are carried out at fully equiped and reputable  Ahooja  eye hospital, gurgaon.

The experience of extremely successful arrangement has become the basis for new model  proposed by Mr. Ashok Mahindru. This model describes the following:

•         One central eye bank attached to a complete  Eye hospital and
•       Ten remote prmary eye care & eye donation centres in rural areas
•      Running two mobile vans as equipped medical units to integrate with primary remote centres.

Mr. Ashok Mahindru’s Vision:

To eradicate curable blindness from the country.

Mr. Ashok Mahindru’s Mission:

To setup 300 integrated hubs by the year 2015.

Mr. Ashok Mahindru’s Purpose through these initiatives:

• To create modern facilities using best technology and  equipment.
• To create extensive awareness about merits of eye donations.
• To provide high quality medicare free of cost.

Mr. Ashok Mahindru’s Strategy:

To create primary eye care and eye donation facilities in joint venture with like minded NGOs at all cities with 0.5 million population to setup one integrated hub having 9-12 remote centres and the central unit with cornea processing facility attached to a full fledged eye hospital.

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Ashok Mahindru says, “India is home to world’s largest blind population. Around 1, 20, 00, 000 people are suffering from some kind of eye problem. 80 % of them are suffering from cataract or refractive errors which are curable through a normal medical process.” “Remaining 2.1 million people are suffering from acute corneal blindness that can only be eradicated through transplantation of corneas from eye donation, which must be performed with in about 6 hours of death.” Added Mr. Ashok Mahindru. 

Underlining the problem of eye donations Ashok Mahindru said, “Against this, average number of eye donations in India languishes at about 38,600 per annum implying that even an impossible wait of 112 years will not help most. On the other hand approximately 9 million people die every year and one pair of eyes from a deceased person can be implanted on two blind persons implying a potential of 1 Cr. 80 Lac corneal transplants.” Highlighting the major cause for this unfortunate situation Ashok Mahindru says is lack of awareness among our countrymen about eye donation, its need and life changing impact on entire families of cornea recipients who are able to see this beautiful world again. Therefore, there is an urgent need to raise awareness about eye donation feels Ashok Mahindru. 

With the vision of working towards total eradication of corneal blindness from the country, a Gurgaon based NGO Y P Mahindru Nirmaya Eye Bank Under Mr. Ashok Mahindru has achieved the set target of 1000 eye donations recently. Ashok Mahindru who has carried forward his father's dream initiative Y.P. Mahindru Niramaya Eye Bank, for 2012 had set the target of 1000 eye donation which was completed successfully. Many of these corneas have been transplanted by AIIMS, Delhi and PGIMS, Rohtak (Haryana) through an ongoing collaboration. 

On this occasion of 1000th successful eye donation program Mr Ashok Mahindru said that “The journey has not stopped here rather it has just begin and I will urge my fellow citizens to Enlighten someone’s world by donating your eyes”. 

Founder of the eye bank honorable Late Mr. Y.P Mahindru, father of Mr. Ashok Mahindru was a visionary philanthropist who believed that one gets deep inner satisfaction and happiness when one gets physically involved in philanthropy. Late Mr. Mahindru had worked for health care for over 6 decades and had regularly organized free eye surgery/care camps for the under privileged. Mr. Ashok Mahindru has been taking forward his father's vision by expanding the footprint through Run for Vision Foundation.

In 2004, Late Mr. Mahindru along with his son Ashok Mahindru guided a group of motivated professionals with a record experience in health and eye care to set up North India's first and largest private Eye bank with a mission of providing 'Quality Health Care to the Rural and Urban Poor". 

It is the only govt. approved eye bank in South Haryana which is registered with Eye Bank Association of India. It follows standard world class procedures and is equipped with latest technology.

With a vision to reach out to many more and bring light in their life and family, Mr. Ashok Mahindru through his organization is relentlessly working hard to set up many more such eye banks.