Vipin Buckshey
Vipin Buckshey is an Indian optometrist and the official optometrist to the President of India. Born on 3 June 1955 in Gwalior, in the Indian state of madhya Pradesh, he did his schooling at the Frank Anthony Public School after which secured a degree in optometry from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He started his career at Lawrence and Mayo, Delhi and a ophthalmic executive where he is reported to have established a contact lens division. Buckshey, who is known to have served five former Presidents of India and the Dalai Lama, is a former president of the Indian Contact Lens Society and the Indian Optometric Association and is credited with performing over 15,000 surgeries. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2000, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award Padma Shri. In October 2025, during President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa’s state visit to India marking 70 years of Mongolia–India relations, for his contributions to bilateral.
Founded in the year 1980 by Vipin Buckshey, Visual Aids Centre became the first eye centre in Delhi to introduce in the year 1999. Since then, Visual Aids has been at the forefront of newer technologies in Laser Vision Correction surgery with constant upgrades every year and we have had the great fortune of performing over 250,000 Laser Vision Correction procedures which is the highest number of procedures performed by a private eye centre in India.