Many children in rural Bihar live with eye conditions that are never identified early. From infants born with cataracts to school-going children with uncorrected refractive errors, poor vision often goes unnoticed during the years when learning and development depend on it most.

The gap is not treatment. It is timing and access. Routine eye screening for children is rare, awareness remains low, and early signs are frequently mistaken for poor attention or academic difficulty. As a result, preventable vision problems persist through critical years of growth.

Akhand Jyoti's Paediatric Eye Screening programme, Bal Drishti*, takes screening and referral directly to children in schools and communities, enabling early diagnosis and timely care before vision loss begins to affect learning outcomes.

*A CSR initiative of Bajaj Finserv.