Eyes are the windows to the world and vision is God's greatest gift. May the word Sunetra remind us of Him and help us to feel for those who cannot see.

Sunetra is a comprehensive, total eye care centre. It is a unit of Calcutta Eye Research Foundation, a non-profit-making, registered public charitable trust, managed by a board of trustees. The foundation is blessed by His Holiness Swami Akhyanandaji Maharaj, President of Bharat Sevashram Sangha, Calcutta, who is also the chief patron.

The foundation strives to provide state-of-the-art ophthalmic care under one roof and is guided by a missionary spirit of service before self. High standards of discipline, dedication and teamwork are maintained in an effort to alleviate the sufferings of the visually impaired. All patients including the indigent receive uniform quality eye care, irrespective of their paying capacity.

However, Sunetra, now a unit of Calcutta Eye Research Foundation, was never conceived to rest on its laurels. Established on November 20, 1995 by the husband-wife team of Dr. Amitava Biswas and Mrs. Neena Biswas, both formerly with Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, Sunetra now functions from a six-room set-up with a 15-member team including four ophthalmic consultants, always striving towards greater patient comfort.
The state-of-the-art ophthalmic care unit runs on the basic tenets of the Calcutta Eye Research Foundation-to provide primary, secondary and tertiary eye care for protecting and promoting eye health; to ofer training to primary health workers, ophthalmic assistants, nurses, optometrists and ophthalmologists; to establish an environment of academic excellence and subsidise treatment costs of underprivileged patients.

The non-profit making, registered public charitable trust foundation is managed by a board of trustees. His Holiness Swami Akhyanandaji Maharaj, president of Bharat Sevashram Sangha, is the chief parton and Swami Biswatmanandaji Maharaj of the same Sangha is the president of the foundation.
Calcutta Eye Research Foundation is totally focused on alleviating the miseries of underprivileged patients, and considerable resources are directed to that end.