Story link: http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/sieve/article/eye-capital-of-india

Two deeds have made Neemuch,MP, a town of 150,000 people, the leader in eye donations in India.

Back in 1975, Shyamukh Garg became its first eye donor and seeing how his grandson, born blind, went on to become an engineer, townsmen took to donating their eyes. To ensure extraction and preservation processes are done expertly, a second native son of Neemuch, G D Agarwal started the Gomabhai Nethralaya and Research Centre [GNRC - Phone: 07423-20122, 21526] Hospital there in 1992. Agarwal had made a fortune through his coaching classes in Bombay and decided to do his bit for his village.

Neemuch donated 1,230 pairs of eyes in 2005 and backs GNRC which has so far done 6,000 surgeries, half of them free. Full story in Outlook magazine of this date.