The Centre for Community Ophthalmology (CCO) conceives, plans and designs community based projects. Apart from this, the Department also operationalises training, education, research and advocacy.

The Centre for Community Ophthalmology (CCO) was initiated in the year 2002. The services under the umbrella of the Centre include implementing community based projects, training, education, research and advocacy. The Center envisions to add consultancy services in community ophthalmology to other hospitals and organizations in the near future. SNC's mandate has been to work primarily for the rural populace. Ensuring availability of affordable eye care services and creating equal access to them are programmatic imperatives that we endeavour towards. The people living in the states of MP, UP and Bihar that are largely covered under SNC's service area account for more than half of India's economically deprived population. These people are often poor and socially vulnerable and having a member of the family suffering from eye or any other disease gradually extracts a heavy social and economic price on the family, on the community and, as a result on the country.