Tata Steel senior manager (societies) Rajnish Kumar has been elected to the prestigious 15-member national executive committee of Eye Bank Association of India.
He will get a term of three years, starting from April 1, and represent east zone. The -lection was held at the last annual general meeting of the Eye Bank Association held at Barrackpore, Bengal, in September 2012.
The new committee formally took over after its executive committee held at Hyderabad on March 31.i Kumar has been further inducted into two sub-committees - Constitutional Amendment Committee and Fund Raising Committee.
Kumar is a very senior and committed lions Club member and is an avid social worker having associated with many social and voluntary organisations in various capacity. He has occupied several positions in the lions Clubs International and his volunteerism and services have been recognized and rewarded suitably at National and International level several times.
Kumar is currently honorary secretary of Roshni Jamshedpur, which works for the promotion of eye donation and vision restoration of corneally-blind persons in and around Jamshedpur.
The society so far has been able to restore vision of 146 people with 99 donations. His initiative was instrumental in letting Director General of Police, Jharkhand issue orders to all the Superintendent of Police of Jharkhand for permission to harvest corneas from the dead bodies of accidental death victims before the conduct of post-mortem after counselling and permission from the victim’s family.