Dr Ajit Kumar Poddar has completed his MBBS and MS in Ophthalmology.

Currently he is the Medical Director and the leading consultant at Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospitals, Bihar in India. He has led the RAAB6 survey in Bihar and published it in the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology in the year 2016. Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospitals is a high-volume high-quality non-profit eye hospital principally working in the rural areas in the low-income regions of India with the mission of eliminating needless blindness. Our mantra is “working where it really matters” and “reaching to the unreached”. Akhand Jyoti delivers almost 100,000 eye surgeries, 80% free, annually and aims to quadruple its annual surgical output to 400,000