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manager – East India, Vision Spring on their
work for Clear Vision Bihar.
There was an awards ceremony for the
winners among the students who had
participated in an Art & Culture competition
on optometry. The awardees were Sanchita
Sarkar (singing), Antar Sarkar (creative painting),
Iftesum Reja (photography) and Prachee Bharti
(creative reels).
Arun Kumar Mahajan, the senior-
most optometrist of Bihar, was honoured
with a lifetime achievement award. The
PANKAJ SINHA DELIVERING THE WELCOME ADDRESS event concluded with a vote of thanks by
secretary, Uday Kumar Mehta, who thanked
Dr SN Sinha congratulated the BOA for the organisations who had sponsored the
hosting the event for practitioners and students, conference: the Centre for Sight, Dristikunj Eye
and extended his full support. Dr RK Singh Hospital, Centaur Pharma, Kotak Mahindra
offered insights on the importance of research Bank, Alembic Pharma, SJ Foundation, among
and clinical optometry. Dr Dixit said that he others. He also thanked the media for helping
was delighted that as the BOA is the state to creating awareness about optometry and the
chapter of the Indian Optometric Association, work being done in the field.
the IOA would be extending its support for all BOA’s vice president Rajesh Jha, joint
such events. secretary Jayant Jha and Manish Kumar, along
The first speaker, Gitanjali Astha, shared her with its other key members too played a key role
valuable experiences with special focus on the in organising and ensuring the success of the
theme of the conference. Dr Rajeev Prasad, who conference.
serves on the board of directors of the World As Sankhajyoti Saha, assistant professor,
Council of Optometry too spoke with reference NSHM Kolkata, put it, such events encourage
to the theme and also shared details of a world students, colleges and organisations both for
report on vision released by the World Health the knowledge they impart and the opportunity
Organization (WHO). they offer for delegates to network.
Sachidanand Singh highlighted the
importance of community eye health care and FELICIATION OF JOINT SECRETARY, BOA
of tele-optometry in today’s world. Dr Biswajit
Mondal, head of the optometry department
at NSHM Durgapur, delivered a lecture on
“Clinical Pearls of Low Vision Rehabilitation”. Md
Masiuddin, assistant professor, Amity University,
delineated “Behavioural Optometry”.
Dr Rajeev Prasad delivered a talk on the
“Importance of Myopia Management and
Orthokeratology”. Ranjay Kumar, senior
optometrist at Indira Gandhi Institute of
Medical Sciences, Patna, offered valuable
insights. Shagun Jha gave an interesting talk on
Enterprising Optometry. The sessions concluded
with a presentation by Pinaki Banerjee, regional
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