The idea of BOS (Bangalore Ophthalmic Society) was originated in train from Devanagare to Bangalore. In discussion about the state conference few of us felt that there is a need of different platform as the needs and challenges are quite different in metro cities and most of the services provided are from private practice background. After few months of this we had a meeting with few senior members of the Bangalore city and after lengthy discussion and_in subsequent meeting which was attended by many colleagues.

The idea of BOS started taking shape and we thought that BOS can take some clues from Delhi Ophthalmic Society (DOS) which is doing a great job in northern part of India. The main aims of BOS were to enhance and sharing the knowledge in profession, finance, management for their future support young Ophthalmologist, so they will be better equipped with comprehensive knowledge.

Being the founding member of the BOS and second president of the society, | had a good time in discussing and implementing lot of changes and new innovations like CMES for P.G. Students, knowledge sharing seminars were organized with great success. The burning issue of TPAs and legal hassles which bothered each and every one of our members, few committees were formed and work has started. We had public awareness programme and press meetings to spread the positive aspects of the ophthalmology world.

Now we have 6th BOS President but still few concerns are there like TPA issues which due to many reasons it is not solved, my personal fear is that if we don’t adopt to newer strategy we will be treated like a divided family where everyone will be extracted in different ways.

The representations to BOS from Government facilities and small set up is also important as they all work in different set ups and have different challenges and immunities. To increase the base of BOS this is must to accommodate than at proper platform, otherwise it will be again a elite club which is governed by only few with ideas from them.

| pray to God that let our BOS to reach to a stage where others should follow up as we are in the city of innovation of India.