Rotary eye Bank, Corneal Transplant Society honour seniors for pledges to eye and body donation/ Jyoti Bala Mattu Hoshiarpur /Daljeet Ajnoha/June 8

Rotary eye Bank, Corneal Transplant Society honour seniors for pledges to eye and body donation/ Jyoti Bala Mattu
Hoshiarpur /Daljeet Ajnoha/June 8
— A special felicitation ceremony was organized at Tera Aasra Sewa Ghar by Rotary eye Bank and the Corneal Transplant Society under the leadership of chairman Sanjeev Arora and president J.B. Behal to promote awareness about life‑saving pledges such as eye and body donation and to honour senior citizens who had already taken such pledges.
Municipal Commissioner Jyoti Bala Mattu was the chief guest at the function. During the programme, body‑donor cards, prepared by Medical College, Patiala, were distributed to three elderly residents of Tera Aasra Sewa Ghar who had earlier pledged to donate their bodies. In addition, three other seniors — Bakhtawar Singh and Narinder Kaur of Roop Nagar, Hoshiarpur, and Balwinder Singh of the town of Haryana — signed pledge forms to donate their bodies and joined the noble cause. They were presented appreciation certificates and identity documents.
Speaking on the occasion, Municipal Commissioner Jyoti Bala Mattu said eye and body donation are among the greatest acts of service to humanity. “They not only restore sight to those in need but also provide invaluable support to medical education and research,” she said, adding that such pledges set an example for the youth and can steer society in a new direction. “We must take these campaigns to every household,” she said.
Chairman Sanjeev Arora and president J.B. Behal noted that corneal donation can bring light to two people, while body donation is vital for medical study and research. Arora explained that under a body‑donation pledge, a person gives consent to hand over their body to a medical college after death, where medical students gain practical knowledge of human anatomy and researchers carry out important studies. “Study of the human body gives medical students better training, enabling them to treat patients more effectively in future,” he said, calling body donation a continuing service to society and a source of knowledge for future doctors. He urged every citizen to discuss the matter with family members and consider this great donation for the welfare of humanity.
Tera Aasra Sewa Ghar director Rajinder Kaur praised the seniors for setting an exemplary precedent of service and charity, saying their pledge will inspire coming generations. The ceremony concluded with the presentation of body‑donor identity cards to three residents of the home and certificates to three others after they completed pledge forms.
Those present included A.S. Kang, Surinderpal Diwan, Raminder Singh, Ashwani Kumar Datta, Jasvir Kanwar, N.K. Gupta, Madan Lal Mahajan, Krishna Kishore and, on behalf of Tera Aasra Sewa Ghar, Amritjot Singh, Shangara Singh, Prabhjot Singh, Jassi, Tarinder Kaur, Naveen Grover, Roma Saini and others.