1. WHO, Country Health Indicators: India (2003). 
2. UNDP, Human Development Report, Country Sheet: India (2003). 
3. Ibid. 
4. WHO, Country Health Indicators: India (2003). 
5. UNDP, Human Development Report, Country Sheet: India (2003). 
6. Ibid. 
7. E-mail correspondence, Sangeeta Pinto, public relations director, ORBIS India, Oct. 19, 2006.
8. Ibid.
9. UNDP, Human Development Report, Country Sheet: India (2003). 
10. WHO, Country Health Indicators: India (2003). 
11. Ibid. 
12. S. Resnikoff, D. Pascolini, D Eyta’ale, I. Kocur, R. Pararajasegaram, G. Pokharel, S. Mariotti, Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2004), “Global Data on Visual Impairment in the Year 2002” 82:11. This number was estimated based on population surveys from all WHO South Asia Region countries in the same mortality strata as India. These countries were India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal.
13. Ibid. This number was not calculated, but came directly from the text of the article.  
14. Ibid.
15. 2% of total population.
16. S. Resnikoff, et al.
17. Ibid.
18. C. Gilbert and A. Foster, Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2001), “Childhood Blindness in the Context of VISION 2020 – The Right to Sight,” 79:3.
19. VISION 2020, IAPB, WHO, State of the World’s Sight VISION 2020: The Right to Sight 1999-2005.
20. WHO, VISION 2020 Profile: India (2002).